eSecurity Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

However, basic cybersecurity tools and practices, like patching , strong passwords , and multi-factor authentication (MFA), “can prevent 80 to 90% of cyberattacks,” said Anne Neuberger, deputy national security advisor for cyber and emerging technologies, during a White House press conference in Sept. The average cost of a breach is $3.6

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Security Affairs

MARCH 20, 2024

Rapid7 published a detailed analysis of the two flaws here. The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added CVE-2024-27198 in its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 20, 2021

Mine was learning that KrebsOnSecurity is listed as a restricted competitor by Gartner Inc. As the largest organization dedicated to the analysis of software, Gartner’s network of analysts are well connected to the technology and software industries. What was the best news you heard so far this month?

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Security Affairs

JUNE 15, 2022

” The botnet is engaged in cryptomining activity, the malicious code has been designed to hijack the computer’s resources to mine cryptocurrencies. ” reads the analysis published by the experts. At the time of the analysis, the researchers discovered 209 peers, 40 of which are currently active. .

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Security Affairs

APRIL 15, 2022

The crimeware allows operators to steal information from infected systems and abuse its resources to mine Monero. ”” reads the analysis published by Cisco Talos. ”” reads the analysis published by Cisco Talos. The cybercrime gang has been active since at least January 2020.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 25, 2021

” reads the analysis published by ReasonLabs. The resource contains information for the mining activity, the researchers identified a self-compiled version of the XMrig open-source miner containing information such as username, password, algorithm, and mining pool. mp4” format.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added Looney Tunables Linux vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. reads the analysis published by Aqua firm. US CISA adds Looney Tunables Linux flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 3, 2022

The bot focuses on cryptocurrency mining and cryptocurrency theft via clipboard hijacking. ” reads the analysis published by Symantec. Security Affairs is one of the finalists for the best European Cybersecurity Blogger Awards 2022 – VOTE FOR YOUR WINNERS. million in illicit gains. Bitcoin and 129.9

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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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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. ” reads the analysis published by Guardicore.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2022

” reads the analysis published by Stairwell. The phishing messages sent to the journalists contained a link to ZIP archives containing LNK files, both named ‘Kang Min-chol edits’ (Kang Min-chol is North Korea’s Minister of Mining Industries). “At the time of initial analysis, the domain mail[.]dailynk[.]us

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Security Affairs

JUNE 1, 2019

” 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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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. ” continues the report.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2023

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Security Affairs

JUNE 3, 2022

” reads the analysis published by Volexity. In September 2021, Trend Micro researchers spotted crypto-mining campaigns that were actively exploiting a recently disclosed critical remote code execution vulnerability in Atlassian Confluence deployments across Windows and Linux.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2020

The campaign primarily targets users in Spain and South American countries, aims to launch a coin-mining shellcode directly in memory. The in-memory DLL then injects a coin-mining code into notepad.exe through process hollowing. Please give me your vote for European Cybersecurity Blogger Awards – VOTE FOR YOUR WINNERS [link].

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Group-IB cybersecurity researchers recently identified several Russian-speaking cybercrime groups offering infostealing malware-as-a-service (MaaS), resulting in the theft of more than 50 million passwords thus far. Aurora Malware.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 27, 2021

Researchers have discovered a strain of cryptocurrency-mining malware, tracked as Crackonosh, that abuses Windows Safe mode to avoid detection. . ” reads the analysis published by Avast. The final stage of the Crackonosh attack chain is the installation of the coinminer XMRig to mine the Monero (XMR) cryptocurrency.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 17, 2023

CISA and ENISA enhance their Cooperation CISA adds Qlik bugs to exploited vulnerabilities catalog Report: 2.6 CISA and ENISA enhance their Cooperation CISA adds Qlik bugs to exploited vulnerabilities catalog Report: 2.6

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Security Affairs

JULY 25, 2021

” states the analysis published by Intezer. At least in one case, the researchers noticed that attackers deployed a popular cryptocurrency mining container, kannix/monero-miner, a circumstance that suggests an ongoing hacking campaign in the wild.

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Security Affairs

MAY 6, 2022

On executing the above shell script (hash: 05a65e666492dd8ec5ab0985e5395967bc7bed03e9aaca11cdb9351873093382), the Xmrig miner gets downloaded from github and mining gets started (see Figure 8). The main objective of kinsing is to mine cryptocurrency on the vulnerable servers. Figure 9: xmrig getting downloaded. Conclusion.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 27, 2021

Researchers discovered six rogue packages in the official Python programming language’s PyPI repository containg cryptocurrency mining malware. ” reads the analysis published by Sonatype. The packages contained malicious code in the setup.py

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IBM Big Data Hub

AUGUST 14, 2023

While the survey shows almost all organizations use or want to use AI for cybersecurity operations, only 28% of them use AI extensively, meaning most organizations (72%) have not broadly or fully deployed it enough to realize its significant benefits.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 4, 2021

” reads the analysis published by Talos. The main payloads allow the malware to launch DDoS attacks, sniff and exfiltre network traffic using a SOCKS proxy and install XMRig Monero cryptocurrency mining software. The bot used a user-mode rootkit to hide the malicious process and malicious registry entries created.

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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 victimology is quite random and opportunistic rather than highly targeted, which makes it even more dangerous and widespread. . ” concludes the report.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

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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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

MAY 2, 2021

They will often describe potential “legitimate” uses for their malware – only to further describe anti-malware evasion properties, silent installation and operation or features such as cryptocurrency mining, password theft or disabling webcam lights.” ” reads the post published by Palo Alto Networks.

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Security Affairs

MAY 31, 2019

“Unlike common Linux malware, HiddenWasp is not focused on crypto-mining or DDoS activity. ” reads the analysis published by Intezer. ” If you appreciate my effort in spreading cybersecurity awareness, please vote for Security Affairs in the section “Your Vote for the Best EU Security Tweeter” Thank you.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

This week, we discuss new reports from Cisco, McAfee and the CSIS, and Big Brother Watch, and hear more about malicious Monero mining. Further analysis of the financial effects of cyber crime can be found in a report released this week by McAfee and the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Here are this week’s stories.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 25, 2019

Malware Analysis Sandboxes could expose sensitive data of your organization. The Cost of Dealing With a Cybersecurity Attack in These 4 Industries. Employees abused systems at Ukrainian nuclear power plant to mine cryptocurrency. Intel addresses High-Severity flaws in NUC Firmware and other tools.

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Security Affairs

MAY 29, 2019

” continues the analysis. The payloads used in this campaign were droppers used to deliver a cryptocurrency miner to mine TurtleCoin cryptocurrency. The injected code creates a new process which inherits winlogon’s SYSTEMprivileges, providing equivalent permissions as the prior version.”

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Information is Currency

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

The Conflict between Data Science and Cybersecurity. Cybersecurity is in direct conflict with the basis tenants of data analysis, especially big data analysis, predictive analytics and data mining. Risk of personal data loss. Restrict core device functionality.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Group-IB, a Singapore-based cybersecurity company: ransomware accounted for over half of all malicious mailings in H1 2019 , detected and analyzed by Group-IB’s Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-GIB), with Troldesh aka Shade being the most popular tool among cybercriminals. “It Financial departments at high risk.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 3, 2021

In June, researchers with Sonatype, a supply chain security provider, found six malicious typosquatting packages in the repository that included crypto-mining malware. The administrators of the PyPI repository have had to address a range of security issues in recent months.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The company stopped only 63% of threats in last year’s MITRE testing in our analysis, but with a strong R&D team, Kaspersky will use that knowledge to keep improving. But what remains true is that AV software is an essential tool and part of every developed cybersecurity infrastructure in the world.

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Info Source

MAY 25, 2018

Today he practices in the areas of regulatory litigation, including cybersecurity and data breaches, privacy and telecommunications, civil and criminal enforcement proceedings and international Regulatory Compliance. “If I am covered by the GDPR I have to appoint a Data Protection Officer (DPO) in the EU. Wrong.

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