Security Affairs

APRIL 15, 2022

The crimeware allows operators to steal information from infected systems and abuse its resources to mine Monero. In many cases, this includes the RedLine Stealer and an XMRig-based cryptocurrency mining malware that is internally referred to as “ZingoMiner.”” To nominate, please visit:? Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2023

The botnet was involved in stealing users’ credentials and data, mining cryptocurrencies abusing victims’ resources, and setting up proxies to funnel other people’s internet traffic through infected machines and routers.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 24, 2022

Atlassian fixed a critical flaw in its Jira software, tracked as CVE-2022-0540 , that could be exploited to bypass authentication. Atlassian has addressed a critical vulnerability in its Jira Seraph software, tracked as CVE-2022-0540 (CVSS score 9.9), that can be exploited by an unauthenticated attacker to bypass authentication.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 5, 2022

2022 by Google researcher Luca Nagy. Glupteba is a rootkit that steals passwords and other access credentials, disables security software, and tries to compromise other devices on the victim network — such as Internet routers and media storage servers — for use in relaying spam or other malicious traffic.

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Security Affairs

MAY 4, 2022

” The technique to compromise Dockers containers is widely adopted by financially-motivated threat actors, like LemonDuck or TeamTNT to abuse their resources and mine cryptocurrencies. The post Pro-Ukraine attackers compromise Docker images to launch DDoS attacks on Russian sites appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Security Affairs

MAY 17, 2022

“As for the fake cryptocurrency miner apps, their operators not only try to profit from their victims by duping them into buying fake cloud-based cryptocurrency-mining services, but they also try to harvest private keys and other sensitive cryptocurrency-related information from users who are interested in what they offer.

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Security Affairs

MAY 18, 2022

One of the threat types that surfaced and thrived since the introduction of cryptocurrency, cryptojackers are mining malware that hijacks and consumes a target’s device resources for the former’s gain and without the latter’s knowledge or consent. Below is a list of threats that are currently leveraging cryptocurrency: Cryptojackers.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2022

“On 18 March 2022, NK News shared multiple malicious artifacts with the Stairwell threat research team from a spear-phishing campaign targeting journalists who specialize in the DPRK. The post North Korea-linked APT37 targets journalists with GOLDBACKDOOR appeared first on Security Affairs. ” concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

MAY 6, 2022

In the above image, the cronb.sh (hash: fa98add22756cc2041f1dc372c709a4039cd0d6ae000454f728e95165be08abe) shell script does the following activities onto the server: Tries to disable security monitoring agents like aliyun in the victim system. The main objective of kinsing is to mine cryptocurrency on the vulnerable servers.

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IBM Big Data Hub

OCTOBER 30, 2023

In today’s digital age where data stands as a prized asset, generative AI serves as the transformative tool to mine its potential. The global AI market is projected to grow to USD 190 billion by 2025, increasing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 36.62% from 2022, according to Markets and Markets.

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IBM Big Data Hub

AUGUST 14, 2023

According to a separate 2023 Global Security Operations Center Study , SOC professionals say they waste nearly 33% of their time each day investigating and validating false positives. The findings in these studies paint a tremendously strained situation for most security operations teams.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2023

Experts warn of a large-scale cryptocurrency mining campaign exploiting Kubernetes (K8s) Role-Based Access Control ( RBAC ). Cloud security firm Aqua discovered a large-scale cryptocurrency mining campaign exploiting Kubernetes (K8s) Role-Based Access Control ( RBAC ) to create backdoors and run miners.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

LastPass says the changes are needed to ensure all customers are protected by their latest security improvements. But critics say the move is little more than a public relations stunt that will do nothing to help countless early adopters whose password vaults were exposed in a 2022 breach at LastPass.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

In November 2022, the password manager service LastPass disclosed a breach in which hackers stole password vaults containing both encrypted and plaintext data for more than 25 million users. Monahan said virtually all of the victims she has assisted were longtime cryptocurrency investors, and security-minded individuals.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Welcome to our September 2022 list of data breaches and cyber attacks. Compared to August, it was a comparatively quiet month, as we identified 88 publicly disclosed security incidents and 35,566,046 compromised records. That’s because we’re looking for ways to improve the way we deliver this data. Cyber attacks. Ransomware.

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IBM Big Data Hub

MARCH 18, 2024

gigatonnes (Gt) in 2022 from oil alone, whereas renewable energy generation emits little to no carbon emissions to power homes, cars and businesses. Try the IBM Environmental Intelligence Suite for free Book a live demo The post The advantages and disadvantages of renewable energy appeared first on IBM Blog.

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Security Affairs

MAY 14, 2022

These ports have maximized their cargo turnover through cooperation with JSC Russian Railways which delivers coal from the mining sites to the ports. The post OpRussia update: Anonymous breached other organizations appeared first on Security Affairs. To nominate, please visit:? Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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KnowBe4

JULY 5, 2023

But I don't think an attack of such magnitude as the one identified by security researchers at Internet security monitoring vendor Bolster. This latest impersonation campaign makes the case for ensuring users are vigilant when interacting with the web – something accomplished through continual Security Awareness Training.

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Data Matters

MARCH 15, 2022

On March 9, 2022, President Joe Biden signed an executive order (EO) to engage several federal agencies in a comprehensive review of the federal government’s approach to cryptocurrencies and digital assets. The post Executive Order on Ensuring Responsible Innovation in Digital Assets appeared first on Data Matters Privacy Blog.

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IBM Big Data Hub

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Built on decades of innovation in data security, scalability and availability, IBM Db2 keeps business applications and analytics protected, highly performant, and resilient, anywhere. Thankfully, the IBM Z platform is designed to be one the most securable platforms. In fact, the IBM z16 is industry’s first quantum-safe system.

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IBM Big Data Hub

MAY 17, 2023

billion in 2022 to USD 47.38 In the mining industry, different activities related to health, safety and environment (along with hazards in mines) can be captured and analyzed by different models using the DaaS application. The global commercial drone market is projected to grow from USD 8.15

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

link] — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) November 15, 2022 I've had various public users of HIBP, commercial users and even governments reach out to ask what's going on because they were concerned about their data. I think he’s actually serious!  number of ppl living at the house has changed.

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Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

[link] pic.twitter.com/Rnx6CDexhv — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) February 9, 2022 Someone had reached out to me privately and shared the offending page as they'd taken issue with the false claims DigiCert was making. Apparently, using a website checker : When in doubt, use a website checker to verify if a website is secure.

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