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Ngrok Mining Botnet

Security Affairs

Additionally, the campaign is sophisticated in seeking to detect, analyse and neutralise other competing crypto-mining malware. I’ve been following the Monero mining pool address used in the Ngrok campaign and regularly checking for other research references on the internet. Whaler – attack types and analysis. Introduction.

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Cyber Security’s Impact on Climate Change: What Can Organisations Do?

IT Governance

Then there’s blockchain mining. In the early days of bitcoin mining, individuals could create new bitcoins using a standard computer set-up, but the process has grown so complex that it now requires a room full of specialised tools. It’s therefore no surprise that Cloud storage centres account for 1% of the world’s electricity use.

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How to unlock a scientific approach to change management with powerful data insights

IBM Big Data Hub

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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MY TAKE: The no. 1 reason ransomware attacks persist: companies overlook ‘unstructured data’

The Last Watchdog

The main difference between the two is organization and analysis. Most of the unstructured data generated in the course of conducting digital commerce doesn’t get stored in a database or any other formal management system. For structured data, users can run simple analysis tools, i.e., content searches, to find what they need.

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Cryptojacking campaign uses Shodan to scan for Docker hosts to hack

Security Affairs

” 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. As with all cryptocurrency miners, it uses the resources of the host system to mine cryptocurrency (Monero in this instance) without the owner’s knowledge.”

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New Linux Malware Shikitega Can Take Full Control of Devices

eSecurity Planet

The infamous XMRig mines Monero cryptocurrency that is known to be anonymity-focused, as it’s particularly hard to trace back. Even if the malware is highly evasive, security solutions such as EDR can spot unusual activities, especially if you enable behavioral analysis. Cybercriminals Use C2 Servers to Deploy Cryptominer.

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Torii botnet, probably the most sophisticated IoT botnet of ever

Security Affairs

” 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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