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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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

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

PaloAlto Network warns of the WatchDog botnet that uses exploits to take over Windows and Linux servers and mine cryptocurrency. Security researchers at Palo Alto Networks uncovered a cryptojacking botnet, tracked as WatchDog, that is targeting Windows and Linux systems. Redis Spring Data Commons CVE-2018-1273, versions prior to 1.13-1.13.10,

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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. Caro Security researchers have observed a new malware campaign targeting Redis servers with a crypto miner dubbed Migo. ” reads the report published by Cado Security. ” The main Migo payload (/tmp/.migo)

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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. A few takeaways: Outside a database. Ransomware target.

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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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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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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2023

Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free for you in your email box. A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 20, 2024

security flaws in JetBrains TeamCity to deploy multiple malware families and gain administrative control over impacted systems. In early March, Rapid7 researchers disclosed two new critical security vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2024-27198 (CVSS score: 9.8) and CVE-2024-27199 (CVSS score:7.3), in JetBrains TeamCity On-Premises.

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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 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. Security Affair s – hacking, shc Linux malware).

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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

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Security researchers discovered a new botnet, named Abcbot , that focused on Chinese cloud hosting providers over the past months. In November, researchers from Qihoo 360’s Netlab security team spotted the Abcbot botnet that was targeting Linux systems to launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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

In an ideal world, all of the security controls are applied and all of the debugging tools are removed or disabled before the code is released to the public. ” These are very powerful functions for debugging tools, and also useful for executing malicious code without being trapped by the usual security controls.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

Researchers are cloud security firm Aqua have observed threat actors exploiting the recently disclosed Linux privilege escalation flaw Looney Tunables in attacks against cloud environments. ” reads the analysis published by Aqua firm. ” continues the analysis. while processing the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 7, 2022

The candid messages revealed how Conti evaded law enforcement and intelligence agencies , what it was like on a typical day at the Conti office , and how Conti secured the digital weaponry used in their attacks. “Big companies have too many secrets that they hold on to, thinking that this is their main value, these patents and data.”

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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. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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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Security Affairs

JANUARY 25, 2021

. “These techniques include numerous modules that exploit implicit trust, weak passwords, and unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities in popular applications, including Secure Shell (SSH), IT administration tools, a variety of cloud-based applications, and databases.” 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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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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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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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 20, 2022

I had the chance at RSA Conference 2022 to visit with John Shier, senior security advisor at Sophos, a security software and hardware company. an operative who’s adept at, say, carrying out a crypto mining routine that saps processing power. Teeming criminal activity. Cybercriminals are merely feasting on low-hanging fruit.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 9, 2023

Fortinet researchers observed the mining group 8220 Gang using a new crypter called ScrubCrypt in cryptojacking attacks. ” reads the analysis published by Fortinet. “This payload extracts ScrubCrypt, which obfuscates and encrypts applications and makes them able to dodge security programs. .

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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

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Security experts at Symantec have discovered eight potentially unwanted applications (PUAs) into the Microsoft Store that were dropping cryptojacking Coinhive miners. ” reads the analysis published by Symantec. Then the mining script is activated and starts abusing devices resources to mine Monero cryptocurrency.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

“CISA obtained four malicious files for analysis during an on-site incident response engagement at a Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) organization compromised by Iranian government sponsored advanced persistent threat (APT) actors.” ” reads the Malware Analysis Report (AR22-320A) published by CISA.

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IBM Big Data Hub

AUGUST 14, 2023

The Cost of a Data Breach 2023 global survey found that extensively using artificial intelligence (AI) and automation benefited organizations by saving nearly USD 1.8 million in data breach costs and accelerated data breach identification and containment by over 100 days, on average.

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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 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

OCTOBER 7, 2020

A new botnet, tracked as HEH, discovered botnet implements a disk-wiping feature that allows it to wipe all data from the infected systems. The analysis of the HEH Bot revealed that it contains three functional modules: propagation module, local HTTP service module and P2P module. Pierluigi Paganini.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

Cyber criminals may damage, destroy, steal, encrypt, expose, or leak data as well as cause harm to a system. Also read: The Best Wi-Fi 6 Routers Secure and Fast Enough for Business. In May, cybersecurity researchers revealed that ransomware attacks are increasing their aggressive approach by destroying data instead of encrypting it.

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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

AUGUST 25, 2019

The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Malware Analysis Sandboxes could expose sensitive data of your organization. million to allow towns to access encrypted data. Employees abused systems at Ukrainian nuclear power plant to mine cryptocurrency. A new round of the weekly newsletter arrived!

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 4, 2019

” reads the analysis published by F-Secure. ” continues the analysis. The service creates multiple threads to carry out several malicious activities, such as data exfiltration and mining. Further information, including IoCs are reported in the analysis published by F.Secure. traduires[.]com

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