The Last Watchdog
AUGUST 3, 2018
Illicit crypto mining is advancing apace. It began when threat actors began stealthily embedding crypto mining functionality into the web browsers of unwitting individuals. Related article: Illicit crypto mining hits cloud services. It’s likely IT and security teams won’t find the infection for months.
Security Affairs
AUGUST 23, 2019
The Ukrainian Secret Service is investigating the case of employees at a nuclear power plant that connected its system online to mine cryp tocurrency. The security incident has happened in July at the South Ukraine Nuclear Power Plant at Yuzhnoukrainsk, in the south of the country. ” reported ZDnet. Pierluigi Paganini.
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The Last Watchdog
OCTOBER 28, 2021
However, these attacks aren’t due to exchange security flaws; malicious actors are exploiting the underlying consensus protocols of blockchains themselves. In 2018, a 51% attack on Bitcoin Gold absconded with over $18M, and the attack was estimated to cost less than $200k to execute.
Security Affairs
MAY 12, 2019
Two hacking groups associated with large-scale crypto mining campaigns, Pacha Group and Rocke Group , wage war to compromise as much as possible cloud-based infrastructure. The first group tracked as Pacha Group has Chinese origins, it was first detected in September 2018 and is known to deliver the Linux.GreedyAntd miner.
Security Affairs
FEBRUARY 18, 2021
PaloAlto Network warns of the WatchDog botnet that uses exploits to take over Windows and Linux servers and mine cryptocurrency. Security researchers at Palo Alto Networks uncovered a cryptojacking botnet, tracked as WatchDog, that is targeting Windows and Linux systems. Redis Spring Data Commons CVE-2018-1273, versions prior to 1.13-1.13.10,
Security Affairs
SEPTEMBER 2, 2020
Experts warn of the KryptoCibule Windows malware that has been active since late 2018 and has targeted users in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Security researchers from ESET have shared technical detailts of a new piece of Windows malware tracked as KryptoCibule. The second one is only used if a dedicated GPU is found on the host.
Security Affairs
SEPTEMBER 19, 2018
Security experts from Kaspersky have published an interesting report on the new trends in the IoT threat landscape. In the first six months of 2018, the experts observed a number of malware samples that was up three times as many samples targeting IoT devices as in the whole of 2017. Security Affairs – IoT devices, hacking ).
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