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Will cryptocurrency mining soon saturate AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud?

The Last Watchdog

On the face, the damage caused by cryptojacking may appear to be mostly limited to consumers and website publishers who are getting their computing resources diverted to mining fresh units of Monero, Ethereum and Bytecoin on behalf of leeching attackers. You can mine them, if you have a powerful CPU. Bilogorskiy.

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How process mining improves IT service management to save your business time and money

IBM Big Data Hub

Auto-discovery tools like process mining — a tool gaining popularity with organizations — does just that. 36% of respondents polled primarily use automated discovery tools like process mining, which improve their ability to analyze processes objectively and at scale.

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Cryptominer ELFs Using MSR to Boost Mining Process

Security Affairs

The Uptycs Threat Research Team recently observed Golang-based worm dropping cryptominer binaries which use the MSR (Model Specific Register) driver to disable hardware prefetchers and increase the speed of the mining process by 15%. This is done to boost the miner execution performance, thereby increasing the speed of the mining process.

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LemonDuck Shows Malware Can Evolve, Putting Linux and Microsoft at Risk

eSecurity Planet

The LemonDuck malware that for the past couple of years has been known for its cryptocurrency mining and botnet capabilities is evolving into a much broader threat, moving into new areas of cyber attacks, targeting both Linux and Microsoft systems and expanding its geographical reach, according to security researchers with Microsoft.

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MaliBot Android Banking Trojan targets Spain and Italy

Security Affairs

MaliBot disguises itself as a cryptocurrency mining app named “Mining X” or “The CryptoApp”, experts also observed the malicious code masqueraded as “MySocialSecurity” and “Chrome” apps. “MaliBot listens for events using the Accessibility Service. ” reads the advisory published by F5 Labs.

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WeLeakInfo Leaked Customer Payment Info

Krebs on Security

com , a wildly popular service that sold access to more than 12 billion usernames and passwords stolen from thousands of hacked websites. In an ironic turn of events, a lapsed domain registration tied to WeLeakInfo let someone plunder and publish account data on 24,000 customers who paid to access the service with a credit card.

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No, I Did Not Hack Your MS Exchange Server

Krebs on Security

” OWA refers to Outlook Web Access , the Web-facing portion of on-premises Exchange servers. I first heard about the domain in December 2020, when a reader told me how his entire network had been hijacked by a cryptocurrency mining botnet that called home to it. That same list today would be pages long. At Least 30,000 U.S.

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