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Microsoft warns of Dexphot miner, an interesting polymorphic threat

Security Affairs

The malicious code abuse of the resources of the infected machine to mine cryptocurrency , according to the experts it has already infected 80,000 computers worldwide. Layers of obfuscation, encryption, and the use of randomized file names hid the installation process. ”reads the analysis published by Microsoft.

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Application modernization overview

IBM Big Data Hub

Many are addressing this via building accelerators that could be customized for enterprise consumption that helps accelerate specific areas of modernization and one such example from IBM is IBM Consulting Cloud Accelerators. We will explore key areas of acceleration with an example in this article.

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Ransomware, Trojan and Miner together against “PIK-Group”

Security Affairs

For example, after encryption, the file “1.jpg” jpg” might have an appearance similar to this example: “hmv8IGQE5oYCLEd2IS3wZQ==.135DB21A6CE65DAEFE26.crypted000007”. Nheqminer is a great implementation of equihash mining, mainly used on NiceHas but forked many times and todays is getting used for several spare projects as well.

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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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Forget C-I-A, Availability Is King

The Falcon's View

In the first case you quickly go down the data governance path (inclusive of data security), which must factor in requirements for control, retention, protection (including encryption), and masking/redaction, to name a few things. Consider, if you will, a cloud resource being compromised in order to run cryptocurrency mining.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Fuzzing Crypto

ForAllSecure

Nor am I going to wade into the debate about the ecological consequences of mining cryptocurrencies. Vranken: Well, mining means cracking a puzzle, which has a certain amount of time and that takes like 10 seconds or something. So there are companies which only mine cryptocurrencies and they make money by this.

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Experts Fear Crooks are Cracking Keys Stolen in LastPass Breach

Krebs on Security

In November 2022, the password manager service LastPass disclosed a breach in which hackers stole password vaults containing both encrypted and plaintext data for more than 25 million users. “I ran my own analysis on top of their data and reached the same conclusion that Taylor reported. But on Nov.

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