Security Affairs

JANUARY 21, 2024

Admin of the BreachForums hacking forum sentenced to 20 years supervised release Russia-linked Midnight Blizzard APT hacked Microsoft corporate emails VF Corp December data breach impacts 35 million customers China-linked APT UNC3886 exploits VMware zero-day since 2021 Ransomware attacks break records in 2023: the number of victims rose by 128% U.S.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 20, 2022

. – an operative who’s adept at, say, carrying out a crypto mining routine that saps processing power. This trend is highlighted in Sophos’ recent adversaries report based on analysis of 144 incidents targeting organizations of varying sizes in the US, Europe, the Middle East, Australia, the Philippines and Japan.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

According to a joint advisory published by the FBI and CISA, an Iran-linked APT group compromised a Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) organization using an exploit for the Log4Shell flaw ( CVE-2021-44228 ) and deployed a cryptomining malware. ” reads the Malware Analysis Report (AR22-320A) published by CISA.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 12, 2021

The POC exploit code for this vulnerability is publicly available since July 2021. The botnet appeared on the threat landscape in November 2020, the attacks aimed at compromising the target systems to create an IRC botnet, which can later be used to conduct several malicious activities, including DDoS attacks and crypto-mining campaigns.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The malware outstands for its multistage infection chain, threat actors use it to can gain full control of the system and carry out other malicious activities, including cryptocurrency mining. ” reads the analysis published by AT&T Alien Labs.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 3, 2022

.” reads the analysis published by Volexity. In September 2021, Trend Micro researchers spotted crypto-mining campaigns that were actively exploiting a recently disclosed critical remote code execution vulnerability in Atlassian Confluence deployments across Windows and Linux.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The analysis of the scripts executed in the attacks and the tools used to deliver the miners allowed the researchers to link the campaign to TeamTNT. ” reads the analysis published by Trend Micro. . ” reads the analysis published by Trend Micro. ” continues the analysis.

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IT Governance

MARCH 29, 2022

IT Governance found more than 1,200 publicly disclosed security incidents in 2021 , which correlates to society’s increasingly reliance on computers and the expanding influence that criminal hackers have. Then there’s blockchain mining. Most obviously, cyber crime by its nature involves the use of computers, which consume energy.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 3, 2022

The bot focuses on cryptocurrency mining and cryptocurrency theft via clipboard hijacking. Clipminer was first spotted in early 2021, it likely spread via Trojanized downloads of cracked or pirated software. ” reads the analysis published by Symantec. million in illicit gains. Bitcoin and 129.9

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

This vulnerability was introduced in April 2021.” reads the analysis published by Aqua firm. Kinsing actors often exploited the PHPUnit vulnerability ( CVE-2017-9841 ) and it engaged in fully automated attacks as part of mining cryptocurrency. Recently, observers noticed Kinsing actors exploiting vulnerable Openfire servers.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 10, 2023

Grasping these opportunities at IBM, we’re increasingly building our specialism in process mining and data analysis tools and techniques we believe to be true ‘game changers’ when it comes to building cultures of continuous change and innovation.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

That’s a significant increase from 2021, when the stealers accessed almost 28 million passwords from a total of 538,000 devices. According to Group-IB, the first Telegram groups coordinating these attacks appeared in early 2021, with the average distribution group containing about 200 active members. Gaming Becomes a Target.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 5, 2022

However, attackers are adding obfuscation to these requests to evade the detection based on request analysis. ” The experts also reported the dropping of additional RATs and reverse shells by exploiting the CVE-2021-44228 in human-operated attacks.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 8, 2022

” reads the analysis published by the researchers. The researchers discovered three versions of this botnet since February 2021, they also noticed that its operators switched programming languages during the same period. Version 3 supports features to launch an XMRig Monero mining software.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 21, 2022

In June 2021, researchers from Avast warned of the rapid growth of the DirtyMoe botnet ( PurpleFox , Perkiler , and NuggetPhantom ), which passed from 10,000 infected systems in 2020 to more than 100,000 in the first half of 2021. ” concludes the analysis.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 19, 2021

The attacks aimed at compromising the tarted systems to create an IRC botnet, which can later be used to conduct several malicious activities, including DDoS attacks and crypto-mining campaign. CVE-2021-3007 – deserialization flaw that affects the Zend Framework (disclosed on January 3, 2021).

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Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2021

The attackers hit companies in North America and threat actors exploited the ProxyLogon Microsoft Exchange flaws ( CVE-2021-27065 and CVE-2021-26858 ) to deliver malware in their networks. The crypto-mining has a modular structure and employes multiple techniques to infect systems and evade detection.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The TeamTNT botnet is a crypto-mining malware operation that has been active since April 2020 and targets Docker installs. In January 2021, the cybercrime gang launched a new campaign targeting Kubernetes environments with the Hildegard malware. ” reads the analysis published by AquaSec. be on IP 93[.]95[.]229[.]203).”

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 21, 2021

Like other competitive GRC solutions, it speeds the process of aggregating and mining data, building reports, and managing files. It uses sophisticated monitoring, automation, and analysis tools to identify risks in real time so you can respond to them as efficiently as possible. Its features include: Enterprise risk management.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 3, 2023

BitRAT is a relatively new threat advertised on underground marketplaces and forums since Feb 2021, it is offered for $20. Monero mining. ” reads the analysis published by the experts. The RAT supports the following capabilities: Data exfiltration. Execution of payloads with bypasses. Keylogging. Credential theft.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

The malware seems to leverage the infamous Pwnkit vulnerability (CVE-2021-4034), one of the easiest exploits imaginable, and OverlayFS ( CVE-2021-3493 ), a kernel exploit that pentesters , capture-the-flag (CTF) players, and hackers know all too well. Cybercriminals Use C2 Servers to Deploy Cryptominer.

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2021

The bold author of a new cryptocurrency stealer, dubbed WeSteal, is promising its customers a leading way to make money in 2021. According to Palo Alto Networks, the author of WeSteal, that goes online as “ComplexCodes,” started advertising the cryptocurrency stealer on underground forums in mid-February 2021.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

The 2022 SonicWall Cyber Threat Report found that all types of cyberattacks increased in 2021. Major cyberattacks at companies like SolarWinds and Colonial Pipeline raised the public visibility of cybersecurity greatly in 2021, elevating it to a Presidential priority. Also read: Best Antivirus Software of 2022. Cyberattack Statistics.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

In August 2020, Guardicore Labs researchers published a detailed analysis of the threat, at the time the malware infected over 500 servers in the U.S. ” The new campaign was spotted in early December 2021, the attack chain starts with an SSH brute force, then the malware drops and executes a file on the server.

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Info Source

JANUARY 28, 2021

The transaction is expected to close in the first quarter of 2021, subject to regulatory approval. “In That includes business process design, benchmarking, gap analysis, improvement and process change management. The suite will also allow customers to monitor the long-run success of these process changes.

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ARMA International

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Gartner (2021) has two related definitions: Digital Transformation: “can refer to anything from IT modernization (for example, cloud computing), to digital optimization, to the invention of new digital business models.” Srivastav 2014) See Figure 1 (HistoryComputer 2021). So, at the outset, a good question to ask is What is DT ?

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 18, 2021

They often aim to spread coinminer malware, hijacking the computing resources of victims to mine cryptocurrency. In this post, we will detail the technical analysis of the malicious components deployed by the TeamTNT threat actor. Technical Analysis. Alpineos profile – Responsible Disclosure. TeamTNT threat actor.

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ARMA International

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Another example is when sensitive information is removed from transaction data after meeting operational requirements, but the data is kept for analytical processing such as market research and trend analysis. AI can perform data analytics on content from many sources and may focus on trend analysis, predictive analytics, modeling, and so on.

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CILIP

MARCH 19, 2021

Copyright has created a digital dark age where the most powerful tools for cultural analysis are blind between 1910 and the rise of social media, says Melissa Terras , Professor of Digital Culture at Edinburgh University and keynote speaker at CILIP?s s Copyright Conference 2021. Here the text mining is used to hunt down references. ?You

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

The TeamTNT botnet is a crypto-mining malware operation that has been active since April 2020 and that targets Docker installs. The malware deploys the XMRig mining tool to mine Monero cryptocurrency. ” states the analysis published by Palo Alto Networks. aws/credentials and ~/.aws/config Containers that ran xmr.sh

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

billion in reported fraud in 2021 alone. For example, Experian’s 2021 Global Identity and Fraud Report stated that 82% of surveyed businesses had adopted customer recognition strategies. According to a report by the United States Sentencing Commission, the median loss of healthcare fraud in 2021 was over $1 million per infraction.

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Everteam

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

25 November 2021. However, it is now common knowledge that their production, especially in Africa, destroys the soil in open-pit mines, where all ecological considerations are absent, and which favors exploitation of local poverty. Today, 60% of the world’s population is online (UNDP, 2021). Digital sobriety.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Speaking at this year’s SecTor 2021 , he shares some of his findings on Kabolos , a stealthy malware that uses SSH credentials to hide, that is perhaps exposed much easier through scanning the IPv4 space -- all 3.7 So analysis of prevalence of malware typically represents only what's being seen on Windows boxes.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 13, 2022

In February 2021. You have to create a special environment and isolated network to do the analysis, when you turn it on. Because I've kind of felt like I've gone as far as I can with just a blackbox analysis of how it's working. It's mine. Well, that's probably when we think about it most. Here's ABCs Good morning.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

In 2021, Connelly and other researchers presented a new paper outlining an approach to detecting rootkits similar to CloudSkulk. The ZeroAccess botnet, discovered in 2011, hit systems hard with fraudulent advertising clicks and Bitcoin mining malware, infecting at least 9 million computers worldwide.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 22, 2023

SCHWARTZ : And towards the end of my internship, I was discussing what I was doing with a friend of mine who said, Oh, but it's a company that my friend works at called Cyber six skill and they do everything that you're doing manually. Mining the dark web for actionable intelligence is one thing, but what about all the output?

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 3, 2021

This came a couple of days after their post about an "alleged data breach" which is full of pretty bizarre statements: [link] — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) March 2, 2021 It's pretty standard practice for an organisation to post a public statement following a breach or even, as the opening sentence of that page suggest, an "alleged" breach.

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