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. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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. The security firm with the help of No-IP and the non-profit Shadowserver Foundation was able to take them all down. ” continues the analysis.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

All too many companies lack a full appreciation of how vital it has become to proactively manage and keep secure “unstructured data.”. Structured data can be human- or machine-generated, and is easily searchable information usually stored in a database, including names, Social Security numbers, phone numbers, ZIP codes. Delete data.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 11, 2023

At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. Researchers from the German cyber security company Aplite discovered 3,806 servers from 111 countries accessible on the Internet. Data breached: more than 59 million data records.

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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. We can shut it down.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Researchers from from Netlab, the network security division of Chinese tech giant Qihoo 360, have discovered a new botnet, tracked as HEH, that contains the code to wipe all data from infected systems, such as routers, IoT devices, and servers. ” reads the analysis published by the researchers. ” concludes the post.

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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

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

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Security researcher Tolijan Trajanovski ( @tolisec ) analyzed the multi-vector Miner+Tsunami Botnet that implements SSH lateral movement. A fellow security researcher, 0xrb , shared with me samples of a botnet that propagates using weblogic exploit. Excellent analysis of the previous version by AWAKE’s Patrick Olsen: [link].

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

Security researchers spotted a new IoT botnet, tracked as Torii, that appears much more sophisticated and stealth of the numerous Mirai variants previously analyzed. ” reads the analysis published by Avast. ” continues the analysis. It is unique in that it is remarkably thorough in how it achieves persistence.”

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 19, 2021

Security researchers uncovered a series of attacks conducted by the FreakOut botnet that leveraged recently discovered vulnerabilities. Security researchers from Check Point have uncovered a series of attacks associated with the FreakOut botnet that is targeting multiple unpatched flaws in applications running on top of Linux systems.

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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. Experts pointed out that a Docker Engine is not properly secured could be exposed to remote attack through Docker Engine API. Docker Trusted Registry ).

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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 activity of the TeamTNT group has been detailed by security firm Trend Micro, but in August 2020 experts from Cado Security discovered that botnet is also able to target misconfigured Kubernetes installations.

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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. The post Prometei botnet is targeting ProxyLogon Microsoft Exchange flaws appeared first on Security Affairs. ” concludes the report. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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.). Pierluigi Paganini.

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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. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs –.

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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

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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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

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. TeamTNT threat actor.

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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

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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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

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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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). So, like any security person and good friend, I send Alex a text and a voicemail asking if the message was from him. Sandy Carielli is the Director of Security Technologies for Entrust Datacard, a Thales eSecurity partner.

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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 I am a computer security scientist with an intensive hacking background.

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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. All content management solutions from Everteam support the security and safety of the entity and its data. Emirates Identity Authority: .

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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. ACT-IAC guidance. federal government.

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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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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.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 11, 2022

Many of the basic principles for securing a data lake will be familiar to anyone who has secured a cloud security storage container. However, data lakes add additional elements such as data feeds, data analysis (data lake house, third-party analysis tools, etc.) Data Lake Security Scope.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Fortunately, this is digital hardware device--the password is on a chip somewhere -- so Dan and his friend turned to a world-renowned embedded security expert, Joe Grand, who looked at the Trezor wallet. Nor am I going to wade into the debate about the ecological consequences of mining cryptocurrencies. Yeah, like that.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 25, 2023

Incident Response is a systematic method for addressing and managing security incidents in organizations, focused on minimizing and investigating the impact of events and restoring normal operations. Remote access trojans (RATs): RATs can be used to remotely gain control of a machine, placing the user’s privacy and security at risk.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 23, 2021

Sophos researchers that investigated the recently uncovered crypto-mining campaign targeting SQL servers with MrbMiner malware believe that it was conducted by an Iran-based company. The experts discovered that the cryptominer was downloaded from the vihansoft.ir, mrbfile, and mrbftp domains and communicated with the poolmrb/mrbpool domains.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 30, 2019

That data included approximately 140,000 Social Security numbers and approximately 80,000 bank account numbers on U.S. “Importantly, no credit card account numbers or log-in credentials were compromised and over 99 percent of Social Security numbers were not compromised,” Capital One said in a statement posted to its site.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Bug bounties have a really interesting way of changing the economics of security flaws and reversing the outcome from one where companies and customers lose, to promoting one where everyone wins. Today's post extends on yesterday's but I wanted to break it out into a discrete piece and come at it from a different angle. across the internet.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 31, 2022

In December 2018, the company provided an update to its initial analysis revealing a disconcerting scenario, UPnProxy was still up and running. The UPnP communication protocol is widely adopted even if it is known to be vulnerable. ” reads the analysis published by Akamai. appeared first on Security Affairs.

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