Krebs on Security

MARCH 7, 2022

penned a two-part analysis on why smart contracts will make ransomware more profitable. On June 6, 2021, Conti underling “ Begemot ” pitched Stern on a scheme to rip off a bunch of people mining virtual currencies, by launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against a cryptocurrency mining pool.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 22, 2021

The Windows botnet has been active since late 2017, it was mainly used to mine cryptocurrency, but it was also involved in DDoS attacks in 2018. “Recently, a new infection vector that cracks Windows machines through SMB password brute force is on the rise” reads the analysis published by AVAST.

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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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Security Affairs

APRIL 27, 2020

The VictoryGate bot propagates via infected USB devices, it was designed to mine Monero abusing resourced of compromised devices, it is also able to deliver additional payloads. ” continues the analysis. The analysis of the sinkholing activities revealed that there are, on average, 2,000 devices mining throughout the day.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

The main difference between the two is organization and analysis. For structured data, users can run simple analysis tools, i.e., content searches, to find what they need. But with no orderly internal framework, unstructured data defies data mining tools. Ransomware target.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 1, 2019

This script also starts an SSH daemon inside the container for remote communication.” ” reads the analysis published by Trend Micro. “The script then calls a Monero coin-mining binary, darwin (detected as PUA.Linux.XMRMiner.AA), to run in the background. ” continues the report.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 5, 2022

Dark Utilities is advertised as a platform to enable remote access, command execution, conduct distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks and cryptocurrency mining operations on infected systems. ” reads the analysis published by Cisco Talos researchers. ” reads the analysis published by Cisco Talos researchers.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 7, 2020

The analysis of the HEH Bot revealed that it contains three functional modules: propagation module, local HTTP service module and P2P module. ” reads the analysis published by the researchers. Upon gaining access to the device, the bot downloads one of seven binaries that install the HEH malware. ” concludes the post.

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erwin

AUGUST 6, 2020

Gartner defines data literacy as the ability to read, write and communicate data in context, including an understanding of data sources and constructs, analytical methods and techniques applied — and the ability to describe the use case, application and resulting value. Can your employees use data to effectively communicate with each other?

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Security Affairs

JUNE 22, 2019

Trend Micro recently discovered an Android crypto-currency mining botnet that can spread via open ADB (Android Debug Bridge) ports and Secure Shell (SSH). Security researchers at Trend Micro have discovered an new Android crypto-currency mining botnet that spreads via open ADB ( Android Debug Bridge ) ports and Secure Shell (SSH).

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

” reads the analysis published by Avast. “Unlike the aforementioned IoT botnets, this one tries to be more stealthy and persistent once the device is compromised, and it does not (yet) do the usual stuff a botnet does like DDOS , attacking all the devices connected to the internet, or, of course, mining cryptocurrencies.”

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Evasion and Persistence: The botnet achieves persistence in multiple ways; kills running processes, potentially competing for mining tools and eliminates EDR. Excellent analysis of the previous version by AWAKE’s Patrick Olsen: [link]. The Miner ELF binaries connect to the following mining proxy servers: 66.70.218.40:8080

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 28, 2018

Earlier this year Sysdig and Aqua Security researchers started observing cyber attacks targeting Kubernets and Docker instances aimed at mining Monero cryptocurrency. Miscreants can abuse Docker Engine API to deploy containers they have created with the specific intent of mining cryptocurrencies.

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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. ” reads the analysis published by Check Point. Supports multi-threaded communication to other devices.

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Archive-It

AUGUST 14, 2023

They visualized and explored their data as communication network graphs, digital object repositories, text mines, and more. Using CARTA’s Art Galleries web archive collection as a demonstration, participants examined the contents of different dataset types and practiced parsing and reading them with free, browser-based tools.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2021

The crypto-mining has a modular structure and employes multiple techniques to infect systems and evade detection. ” reads the analysis published by Cybereason. “Threat actors in the cybercrime community continue to adopt APT-like techniques and improve efficiency of their operations. ” concludes the report.

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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. The discovery of the recent attacks is important because on November 6th, 2021, TeamTNT communicated via Twitter a farewell note. ” reads the analysis published by AquaSec. be on IP 93[.]95[.]229[.]203).”

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Security Affairs

JUNE 19, 2019

The Plurox backdoor is written in C and compiled with Mingw GCC, it communicates with the command and control (C&C) server using the TCP protocol. “The analysis showed the malware to have a few quite unpleasant features. ” reads the analysis published by Kaspersky.

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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. Ultimately, data science is used in defining new business problems that machine learning techniques and statistical analysis can then help solve.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 15, 2019

. “In this new attack, the threat actor first externally scans a given IP range by sending a TCP SYN packet to port 2375, the default port used for communicating with the Docker daemon.” ” reads the analysis published by Trend Micro. launching DDoS attacker, mining cryptocurrency, etc.).

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ChiefTech

NOVEMBER 2, 2008

As a healthy but slight change from recent topics , I was going through some old notes and thought it might be worthwhile sharing some tips with you about collecting data for Social Network Analysis (SNA). Just as brief overview, Social Network Analysis (SNA) is a tool that provides a technique for analysing informal networks.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2020

Now, Shellbot has re-appeared in the threat landscape in a recent campaign, targeting organizations worldwide with a new IRC server and new Monero pools, so we decided to deepen the analysis. Technical Analysis. This directory contains the crypto mining module named kswapd0. The first folder to analyze is “a”.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 15, 2019

Researchers from Trend Micro have analyzed the communication protocols used by cranes and other industrial machines and discovered several flaws. Security experts from Trend Micro have discovered several vulnerabilities in the communication protocols used by cranes, hoists, drills and other industrial machines.

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Security Affairs

JULY 28, 2018

The attackers compromised a font package installed by a PDF editor app and used it to spread a crypto-mining malware on victims’ machines. ” reads the analysis published by Microsoft. The attackers decompiled and modified one MSI file, an Asian fonts pack, to add the malicious payload with the coin mining code.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 31, 2019

” reads the analysis published by the experts. The Android Debug Bridge (adb) is a command-line tool that allows developers to communicate with an Android device. In June, Trend Micro discovered an Android crypto-currency mining botnet that can spread via open ADB (Android Debug Bridge) ports and Secure Shell (SSH). .

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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. Figure 12: IRC communication on port 8080.

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Security Affairs

JULY 22, 2020

Prometei is a crypto-mining botnet that recently appeared in the threat landscape, it exploits the Microsoft Windows SMB protocol for lateral movements. Security experts from Cisco Talos discovered a new crypto-mining botnet, tracked as Prometei, that exploits the Microsoft Windows SMB protocol for lateral movements.

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Archive-It

AUGUST 10, 2023

She then fielded questions about their positionality as part of the institution and possibilities for documenting more of the internal communications for student groups. Karl Blumenthal demonstrates Voyant for text mining analysis on ARCH datasets. This section introduced ARCH to the attendees in a more personal fashion.

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Information is Currency

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

SSL MITM exposes private communications. Cybersecurity is in direct conflict with the basis tenants of data analysis, especially big data analysis, predictive analytics and data mining. 5 ECM Lessons from a Non Verbal Communication Expert. 7 ways MDM threatens employee privacy. Location data revealed.

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Everteam

JULY 11, 2019

The world is leaning towards digital transformation and automated processes in its government transactions, aiming to improve the communication between citizens and public institutions. Being a world-class software vendor, Everteam developed a data analysis program that reviews data from various public and private institutions.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 14, 2018

About six months ago, I got an email from a good friend of mine, who I’ll call Alex (not his real name). As attackers mine information about user appearance, likely passwords, and basic behaviors, more sophisticated behavioral analysis can help us determine whether a person, device, or system is what they claim to be.

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erwin

JUNE 11, 2020

Data Intelligence is the analysis of multifaceted data to be used by companies to improve products and services offered and better support investments and business strategies in place. This will make the business’s customer engagement and communication able to provide self-service interactions in their transactions and services.

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CGI

MAY 13, 2018

At the time, many of the potential applications of a distributed environment—such as one professor’s vision of a distributed air traffic control environment offering immediate, secure communications between every airliner and control tower—were beyond the reach of the available technology. consensus mechanism, transaction costs, etc.)

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Today I’d like to share a simple analysis based on a fascinating threat that I like to call Sustes (you will see name genesis in a bit). The extracted attacker’s unwanted communications are the following ones: 103[.]99[.]115[.]220 It filters PID from connection states and it directly kills them (kill -9). Country: USA).

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Data Protection Report

JUNE 1, 2020

Insolvency practitioners and prospective purchasers therefore need to ensure that they conduct a careful analysis of the data in question, asking probing questions about the nature and quality of consents that were obtained in relation to the use of that data and the information that data subjects were given about how it would be used.

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ARMA International

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Communication technologies have continued to change societies and human interaction. ARMA defines information as “Data that has been given value through analysis, interpretation, or compilation in a meaningful form” (ARMA 2016, p 28). The Genesis of Digital Transformation. Information and Content Explosion. Data Analytics.

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Robert's Db2

JUNE 30, 2023

This did not have much appeal for me (as I'll explain below), and I communicated as much back to the requester. I'll share these thoughts of mine in a two-part blog entry. In fact, colleagues of mine who are part of the team in IBM Support that works on cases (i.e., OK," I thought to myself, "Now we're talking."

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