Security Affairs

JANUARY 17, 2020

. “The website had claimed to provide its users a search engine to review and obtain the personal information illegally obtained in over 10,000 data breaches containing over 12 billion indexed records – including, for example, names, email addresses, usernames , phone numbers, and passwords for online accounts. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Daymark

APRIL 6, 2021

Stopping malicious actors from accessing your company’s systems and data is a top priority, but is made difficult by the number of different exploit techniques coupled with the sophistication of the attacks. For example, if a password I use frequently (maybe even a strong one) is exposed in a breach of an e-commerce company.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 27, 2021

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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Security Affairs

MARCH 20, 2024

The vulnerabilities may enable an unauthenticated attacker with HTTP(S) access to a TeamCity server to bypass authentication checks and gain administrative control of that TeamCity server.” reads the advisory published by JetBrains. The flaws impact all TeamCity On-Premises versions through 2023.11.3,

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Security Affairs

JULY 29, 2020

Experts spotted an undetectable Linux malware that exploits undocumented techniques to evade detection and targets publicly accessible Docker servers. The ongoing Ngrok mining botnet campaign is targeting servers are hosted on popular cloud platforms, including Alibaba Cloud, Azure, and AWS. An example domain would be: 6d77335c4f23[.]ddns[.]net

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IT Governance

MARCH 29, 2022

Perhaps the most significant example of this is the Cloud. Millions of people rely on the Cloud to access information and services, with facilities filled with high-powered CPUs, terabytes of RAM and petabytes of storage. Then there’s blockchain mining. public Clouds and 2.7 private ones. ISO 50001 and smarter energy use.

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Security Affairs

JULY 25, 2021

An example of an attack found in the wild, launching a popular cryptocurrency miner container” A Workflow is the core resource in Argo and is defined using a YAML file containing a “spec” for the type of work to be performed. ” states the analysis published by Intezer.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Based on the nature of the vulnerability, once the attacker has full access and control of an application, they can perform a myriad of objectives. For example, the AWS CLI uses environment variables and configuration files that can be exfiltrated by exploiting CVE-2021-22448. ” reads the analysis published by Microsoft. .

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IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 10, 2023

Without a doubt, there is exponential growth in the access to and volume of process data we all, as individuals, have at our fingertips. Process mining presents the ‘art of the possible’ when it comes to investing time and energy into organizational change initiatives that can make change stick.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 9, 2023

“I want to try and help to put a stop to it and make it more difficult for [ID thieves] to access, since [Experian is] not doing s**t and regular people struggle,” Kushnir wrote in an email to KrebsOnSecurity explaining his motivations for reaching out. Now I know why Experian has NEVER let me view my own file via their website.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 15, 2021

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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Security Affairs

AUGUST 4, 2021

In recent months the number of cyberattacks against misconfigured Kybernetes systems has surged, threat actors mainly used the to illegally mine cryptocurrencies. Use strong authentication and authorization to limit user and administrator access as well as to limit the attack surface. ” states the guidance. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Collibra

MARCH 12, 2024

For example, a number of BI tools now can integrate Python and R scripts, both of which are programming languages commonly used to create predictive models and machine learning algorithms. To see how advanced analytics augment traditional BI capabilities, let’s consider an example: analyzing customer churn.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Sam Bankman-Fried and Zixiao “Gary” Wang controlled the access. This involved using an “unsecured group email account as the root user to access confidential private keys and critically sensitive data for the FTX Group companies around the world…” About $740 million in cryptocurrency has been placed into new cold wallets. “The

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 28, 2021

” 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.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 13, 2018

However, these fraudsters don’t really care about snatching up your credentials or mine. By now, your personal information and mine has been hacked multiple times and is readily on sale in the Dark Web. The most recent example comes from Timehop, a service that enables social media users to plug into their past.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Such an approach is quite popular in the malware landscape, for example, with cryptominers. The attackers hijack the idle processing power of the targeted machines to mine cryptocurrency. This example shows the attack process can be automated and replicated infinitely. format(len(targets)). print 'TOTAL PROMISING TARGETS: {0}'.format(len(promisingTargets)).

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 7, 2021

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. For example, the site dont.farm was used to sell access to compromised Google and Facebook advertising account.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 24, 2022

At ProtectNowLLC.com , we have a tool that has access to over 12 billion compromised records where you can search your username aka your email address to find out if your username and associated password have been compromised on a variety of breached accounts. For example, the first eight characters might look like this: CM&@t*yZ.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Earlier this year, for example, the group was tied to a particularly aggressive malware campaign that exploited recent vulnerabilities in widely-used networking products, including flaws in Cisco and D-Link routers, as well as Citrix and Pulse VPN appliances. APT41’s activities span from the mid-2000s to the present day.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 1, 2020

Cybersecurity researchers spotted a crypto-mining botnet, tracked as Vollgar, that has been hijacking MSSQL servers since at least 2018. Researchers at Guardicore Labs discovered a crypto-mining botnet , tracked as Vollgar botnet , that is targeting MSSQL databases since 2018. and Windows Script Host Object Model (wshom).

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IBM Big Data Hub

APRIL 4, 2024

For example, BPM is smaller in scale than business process reengineering (BPR), which radically overhauls or replaces processes. A purchasing agreement between a client and vendor, for example, needs to evolve and go through different rounds of approval and be organized, accessible and compliant with regulations.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2020

Experts uncovered a hacking campaign that is breaching Docker clusters to deploy a new crypto-mining malware tracked as Kinsing. ” The Kinsing malware abuses the resources of the Docker installations to mine cryptocurrency, hackers exploit unprotected open Docker API port to instantiate an Ubuntu container. “The spre.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

In the diagram below we show just one example of how the vulnerabilities and newly discovered persistence techniques could be used together. Experts pointed out that Network gateways are privileged targets for threat actors because they can compromise them in order to gain initial access to corporate networks.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 30, 2021

are used to gain access to third party servers. In many cases, this code is designed to avoid detection and the attacker can now deface your website, inject inappropriate ads or even mine for bitcoin. Once the attacker has identified a suitable target, various methods like credential theft, SQL injection, RDP attacks, etc.

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Info Source

OCTOBER 6, 2020

According to the Constellation Research ShortList for Robotic Process Automation , “the RPA market is converging with business process management, process mining and workflow tools,” and “buyer’s should expect these tools to leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to blur the lines between human and machine processes.”

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Upon gaining access to the device, the bot downloads one of seven binaries that install the HEH malware. Experts pointed out that the bot doesn’t contain any offensive features, such as the ability to launch DDoS attacks or to mine cryptocurrency, a circumstance that suggests the malware is under development.

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Malwarebytes reports that, once installed, DarkGate Loader can be used for many nefarious purposes, including “remote access, cryptocurrency mining, keylogging, clipboard stealing, and information stealing”. You can help educate your staff with IT Governance’s Phishing Staff Awareness Training Programme.

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Data Protection Report

OCTOBER 12, 2023

It substantially follows the draft guidance, with some additional examples and pointers on where employers “must”, “should”, or “could” follow the approach laid out. Similarly, examples draw out the distinctions between workers who might expect intrusive monitoring in their employment and those who would not. Takeaways for employers 1.1

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

For example, after encryption, the file “1.jpg” jpg” might have an appearance similar to this example: “hmv8IGQE5oYCLEd2IS3wZQ==.135DB21A6CE65DAEFE26.crypted000007”. Nheqminer is a great implementation of equihash mining, mainly used on NiceHas but forked many times and todays is getting used for several spare projects as well.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 21, 2020

Voice phishing is a form of criminal phone fraud, using social engineering over the telephone system to gain access to private personal and financial information for the purpose of financial reward. . Restrict VPN access hours, where applicable, to mitigate access outside of allowed times.

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Security Affairs

JULY 12, 2022

Researchers investigated cloud-based cryptocurrency mining attacks targeting GitHub Actions and Azure VMs. Researchers from Trend Micro published a report that details cloud-based cryptocurrency mining attacks targeting GitHub Actions and Azure VMs and the threat actors behind them. SecurityAffairs – hacking, cryptocurrency mining).

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IBM Big Data Hub

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

This iterative process is known as the data science lifecycle, which usually follows seven phases: Identifying an opportunity or problem Data mining (extracting relevant data from large datasets) Data cleaning (removing duplicates, correcting errors, etc.) They may also use tools such as Excel to sort, calculate and visualize data.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JULY 6, 2023

Areas making up the data science field include mining, statistics, data analytics, data modeling, machine learning modeling and programming. For example, is the problem related to declining revenue or production bottlenecks? as well as math, statistics, data visualization (to present the results to stakeholders) and data mining.

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The Texas Record

JUNE 28, 2021

For example, a completed W4 form is a record , and it provides information about an employee’s tax withholding preferences. For example, you may write a report (creation), or you may receive a complaint via email (receipt). The key difference lies in the distinction between the terms “information” and “record.”

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Robert's Db2

JUNE 30, 2023

This ask gave me an opportunity to think about what I'd like to say to people who write (or might write in the future) application programs that involve accessing Db2 for z/OS-managed data. I'll share these thoughts of mine in a two-part blog entry. Some thoughts on that matter: Learn some of the lingo.

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CILIP

APRIL 5, 2023

This article shares some examples. Similarly, the European Commission’s assessment of the evidence around its future text and data mining rules noted rightholders’ claim that an exception would “facilitate the misuse and piracy of their content and make them lose business opportunities in future”. However, this wasn’t always the case.

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