Krebs on Security

JULY 23, 2020

“Remarkably, Respondent instead allowed unfettered access to the personal and financial data of millions of its customers for six more months until the breach and its serious ramifications were widely publicized by a nationally recognized cybersecurity industry journalist,” the DFS explained in a statement on the charges.

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Using a technique known as chain analysis, the program targets not only those in direct phone contact with a criminal suspect but anyone with whom those individuals have been in contact as well.

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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. Not only can data support a more compelling change management strategy, but it’s also able to identify, accelerate and embed change faster, all of which is critical in our continuously changing world.

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Collibra

MARCH 12, 2024

The term “advanced analytics” gained widespread recognition in the fields of data analysis and business intelligence (BI) during the early 2000s. Today, advanced analytics encompasses a broad array of techniques and methodologies used to extract deep insights from data. Data quality scores are displayed in Collibra.

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IBM Big Data Hub

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Though you may encounter the terms “data science” and “data analytics” being used interchangeably in conversations or online, they refer to two distinctly different concepts. Meanwhile, data analytics is the act of examining datasets to extract value and find answers to specific questions.

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Collibra

JULY 6, 2023

We’re excited to continue to extend our support of the Microsoft ecosystem with our new Azure Data Factory (ADF) and Azure Data Lake Storage integrations, as well as significant enhancements to our Power BI integration. Our new ADLS integration is designed to retrieve, map and ingest metadata from ADLS into the Collibra Data Catalog.

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erwin

AUGUST 6, 2020

How Data Literacy Turns Data from a Burden to a Benefit. Today, data literacy is more important than ever. Data is now being used to support business decisions few executives thought they’d be making even six months ago. So, what is data literacy? What Is Data Literacy? Data Literacy Definition.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 11, 2018

Group-IB is recording new outbreaks of illegal mining (cryptojacking) threats in the networks of commercial and state organizations. Group-IB, an international company specializing in the prevention of cyberattacks, is recording new outbreaks of illegal mining (cryptojacking) threats in the networks of commercial and state organizations.

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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.”. One reason for the enduring waves of ransomware is that unstructured data is easy for hackers to locate and simple for them to encrypt. The main difference between the two is organization and analysis.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

PaloAlto Network warns of the WatchDog botnet that uses exploits to take over Windows and Linux servers and mine cryptocurrency. 27, 2019 and already mined at least 209 Monero (XMR), valued to be around $32,056 USD. Redis Spring Data Commons CVE-2018-1273, versions prior to 1.13-1.13.10, x before 1.4.3) 1.13.10, 2.0-2.0.5

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

A new malware campaign targets Redis servers to deploy the mining crypto miner Migo on compromised Linux hosts. The campaign stands out for the use of several novel system weakening techniques against the data store itself. The attackers continue to improve their capability to exploit web-facing services.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 3, 2023

The RAT supports the following capabilities: Data exfiltration. Monero mining. While investigating multiple lures for BitRAT, the researchers discovered that a threat actor had hijacked the IT infrastructure of a Columbian cooperative bank and likely gained access to customers’ data. Execution of payloads with bypasses.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JULY 6, 2023

While data science and machine learning are related, they are very different fields. In a nutshell, data science brings structure to big data while machine learning focuses on learning from the data itself. What is data science? One challenge in applying data science is to identify pertinent business issues.

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Schneier on Security

JULY 23, 2021

A Catholic priest was outed through commercially available surveillance data. A growing market of data brokers that collect and sell data from countless apps has made it so that anyone with a bit of cash and effort can figure out which phone in a so-called anonymized dataset belongs to a target, and abuse that information.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 31, 2019

Researchers from Palo Alto Networks discovered a new piece of Mac malware dubbed CookieMiner that steals browser cookies associated with cryptocurrency exchanges and wallet service websites along with other sensitive data. ” reads the analysis published by PaloAlto Networks. “It also steals saved passwords in Chrome. .

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Security Affairs

JULY 24, 2018

According to the Trend Micro blog , “We found a new exploit using port 5555 after detecting two suspicious spikes in activity on July 9-10 and July 15. […] Our data shows that the first wave of network traffic came mainly from China and the US, while the second wave primarily involved Korea.” Pierluigi Paganini.

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AIIM

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Those who have been practicing Human resource management for years knows the importance of relying on data analytics for creating an enhanced work culture or else they might lag behind that of other departments. With the ever-growing technology advancement, Human Resource professionals have started embracing the future: data analysis.

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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

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Microsoft has observed activities including installing coin miners, Cobalt Strike to enable credential theft and lateral movement, and exfiltrating data from compromised systems.” ” reads the analysis published by Microsoft. The researchers spotted mining activity aimed at delivering of the Kinsing crypto-miner.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 7, 2022

“Big companies have too many secrets that they hold on to, thinking that this is their main value, these patents and data.” penned a two-part analysis on why smart contracts will make ransomware more profitable. “Like Netherium, Polkadot and Binance smart chain, etc.,” ” Stern wrote. We start ddosing.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 23, 2021

CISA warned of crypto-mining malware hidden in a popular JavaScript NPM library, named UAParser.js, which has millions of weekly downloads. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency published an advisory to warn of the discovery of a crypto-mining malware in the popular NPM Package UAParser.js. ” reads the advisory.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 4, 2023

The ASEC analysis team recently discovered that a Linux malware developed with shell script compiler ( shc ) that threat actors used to install a CoinMiner. The compressed file contains the XMRig CoinMiner malware along with a config.json with the mining pool URL and the “run” script. ” reads the report published by ASEC.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The bot also kills competing malware, including crypto mining and cloud-focused malware, on the same systems. ” reads the analysis published by the experts. ” concludes the analysis. ” concludes the analysis. “However, the code used to download the third payload appears to be commented-out.”

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 21, 2024

Admin of the BreachForums hacking forum sentenced to 20 years supervised release Russia-linked Midnight Blizzard APT hacked Microsoft corporate emails VF Corp December data breach impacts 35 million customers China-linked APT UNC3886 exploits VMware zero-day since 2021 Ransomware attacks break records in 2023: the number of victims rose by 128% U.S.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 25, 2021

. “These particular applications are targeted because they often run on systems that have powerful underlying hardware with significant amounts of memory and powerful CPUs—all of which allow threat actors to maximize their ability to monetize these resources through mining cryptocurrency.” Ransomware, data theft).

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Security Affairs

MARCH 11, 2023

The crypto-mining botnet has a modular structure and employs multiple techniques to infect systems and evade detection. “More specifically, the botnet operators updated certain submodules of the execution chain to automate processes and challenge forensic analysis methods.” ” reads the post published by Cisco Talos.

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Archive-It

AUGUST 14, 2023

last month to explore the data from online art resources computationally at scale. They learned the processes of creating web archive collections and analyzing them hands-on as data, preparing them to consult with faculty and researchers on the questions that make use of computational methods.

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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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IT Governance

JANUARY 9, 2024

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. Publicly disclosed data breaches and cyber attacks: in the spotlight Hathaway breached, 41.5 The compromised data allegedly includes names, email addresses and phone numbers.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 20, 2024

Rapid7 published a detailed analysis of the two flaws here. In other instances analyzed by Trend Micro, threat actors deployed a variant of the open-source XMRig cryptocurrency-mining malware to vulnerable TeamCity servers. ” concludes the report.

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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. ” concludes the experts.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

” reads the analysis published by Aqua firm. Kinsing actors often exploited the PHPUnit vulnerability ( CVE-2017-9841 ) and it engaged in fully automated attacks as part of mining cryptocurrency. ” continues the analysis. The experts pointed out that this marks the first documented instance of such an exploit.

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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

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

” reads the analysis published by Symantec. “As soon as the apps are downloaded and launched, they fetch a coin-mining JavaScript library by triggering Google Tag Manager (GTM) in their domain servers. Then the mining script is activated and starts abusing devices resources to mine Monero cryptocurrency.

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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

JUNE 3, 2022

Atlassian warned of an actively exploited critical unpatched remote code execution flaw (CVE-2022-26134) in Confluence Server and Data Center products. “Atlassian has been made aware of current active exploitation of a critical severity unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability in Confluence Data Center and Server.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 20, 2022

. – an operative who’s adept at, say, carrying out a crypto mining routine that saps processing power. Or the payload might be a data exfiltration routine — or a full-blown ransomware attack. Teeming criminal activity. IABs are giving an already high-functioning cybercriminal underground a turbo boost.

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