Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

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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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

Cyber criminals may damage, destroy, steal, encrypt, expose, or leak data as well as cause harm to a system. Encrypted threats spiked 167%, ransomware increased 105%, and 5.4 In May, cybersecurity researchers revealed that ransomware attacks are increasing their aggressive approach by destroying data instead of encrypting it.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Technical analysis. This file acts as downloader in the infection chain, using a series of hard-coded server addresses, It heavily rely on obfuscation and encryption to avoid the antimalware detection. Shade encrypts all the user files using an AES encryption scheme. References to an Oil-Gas company.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Encrypted data. This is why the CNIL strongly recommends the use of encryption in order to come as close as possible to ensuring an effective exercise of the data subjects’ rights.

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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

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

” reads the analysis published by Cybereason. bin, researchers also observed the use of a cryptocurrency mining module. . Experts observed several variants over the recent months, it authors have improved encryption and implemented new functionality of the final Node.js The final payload of Chaes is a Node.Js

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 28, 2018

Earlier this year Sysdig and Aqua Security researchers started observing cyber attacks targeting Kubernets and Docker instances aimed at mining Monero cryptocurrency. Miscreants can abuse Docker Engine API to deploy containers they have created with the specific intent of mining cryptocurrencies. Docker Trusted Registry ).

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2023

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Security Affairs

JULY 25, 2019

Experts at Intezer researchers have spotted a strain of the Linux mining that also scans the Internet for Windows RDP servers vulnerable to the Bluekeep. The BlueKeep scanner implemented in the WatchBog scans the Internet for vulnerable systems and submits the RC$-encrypted list of RDP hosts, to servers controlled by its operators.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

” 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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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

For example, after encryption, the file “1.jpg” 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. According to zcashnetwork the attacker’s wallet received from mining activity 4.89 crypted000007” extension to each.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 8, 2018

DDoS attacks, ransomware-based campaigns, cryptocurrency mining campaigns). We named this botnet “Black” due to the RC4 key value, “black”, that is used for traffic encryption in this botnet.” ” reads the analysis published by Checkpoint security. Bot-B connects to Bot-A. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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

AUGUST 25, 2019

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. Intel addresses High-Severity flaws in NUC Firmware and other tools. 5 Common Phishing Attacks and How to Avoid Them?

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Security Affairs

JULY 29, 2018

” reads the analysis published by TrendMicro. “Underminer delivers a bootkit that infects the system’s boot sectors as well as a cryptocurrency-mining malware named Hidden Mellifera.” According to the experts, this makes it difficult to analyze the malicious code.

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Security Affairs

JULY 22, 2020

Prometei is a crypto-mining botnet that recently appeared in the threat landscape, it exploits the Microsoft Windows SMB protocol for lateral movements. Security experts from Cisco Talos discovered a new crypto-mining botnet, tracked as Prometei, that exploits the Microsoft Windows SMB protocol for lateral movements.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Thanks to behavioral analysis, such systems make it possible to detect previously unknown malware samples.”. The main functionality of the malware is to encrypt data on the computer and make ransom demands. Analysis revealed that that RTM is aimed at stealing funds through the remote banking services of Russian financial institutions.

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IBM Big Data Hub

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Modernization teams perform their code analysis and go through several documents (mostly dated); this is where their reliance on code analysis tools becomes important. Generative AI also helps generate use cases based on code insights and functional mapping.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2019

” reads the analysis published by Kaspersky. ” continues the analysis. “Even the data with the encrypted payload is stored inside this code section. However, in this case, the digital signature was intact: valid and verifiable.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

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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The Falcon's View

MAY 16, 2018

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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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

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. Remember WEP?

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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. Encryption. Detection Using Machine Learning and Data Mining. The company did not take part in the most recent MITRE tests. Email phishing filter.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

The TeamTNT botnet is a crypto-mining malware operation that has been active since April 2020 and that targets Docker installs. The malware deploys the XMRig mining tool to mine Monero cryptocurrency. It also hides malicious processes using library injection and encrypts the malicious payload. aws/credentials and ~/.aws/config

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 11, 2022

However, data lakes add additional elements such as data feeds, data analysis (data lake house, third-party analysis tools, etc.) The major types of security controls for data lakes fall into the categories of: isolation, authorization, encryption , transmission, and storage. Data Lake Encryption. Data Lake Isolation.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 15, 2020

the malicious code encrypts files and appends the.DEMON extension to filenames of the encrypted documents. Redteam researchers published an analysis detailing TTPs and IOC for the Black Kingdom ransomware. ” reads the analysis published by Redteam. and Italy hosting Android and cryptocurrency mining malware.”

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 21, 2021

Like other competitive GRC solutions, it speeds the process of aggregating and mining data, building reports, and managing files. It uses sophisticated monitoring, automation, and analysis tools to identify risks in real time so you can respond to them as efficiently as possible. Its features include: Enterprise risk management.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 21, 2021

Like other competitive GRC solutions, it speeds the process of aggregating and mining data, building reports, and managing files. It uses sophisticated monitoring, automation, and analysis tools to identify risks in real time so you can respond to them as efficiently as possible. Its features include: Enterprise risk management.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 25, 2023

Ransomware attacks: Ransomware is malware extortion attack that encrypts a victim’s files, demanding a ransom payment in exchange for the decryption key. Cryptojacking : Unauthorized use of a computer’s processing power to mine cryptocurrencies. This often causes significant disruptions and data loss to the company.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 7, 2022

Sharon Ginga , Encryption Product Marketing Director at Thales. And when I think about his future beyond high school, since he’s already 16, it’s here that I look to the workplace, mine and others, to promote true diversity and a more inclusive, accepting culture. Let’s hear what they have to say.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 11, 2022

It identifies unauthorized queries attempting to mine AD for data, hides sensitive or privileged AD query results (such as AD domain admins, domain controllers, SPNs, and others), and inserts fake results that point to decoy systems. It can find signs of ransomware, even in encrypted files. Key Differentiators.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 13, 2022

And that's probably a security design of what they're, what they might put out there and encryption keys and things like that. You have to create a special environment and isolated network to do the analysis, when you turn it on. Because I've kind of felt like I've gone as far as I can with just a blackbox analysis of how it's working.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 30, 2018

Number 1 is "Mining, Resources & Energy" which had a local boom here but is now rapidly declining (down 14% on the previous year). Take mining out of the picture and the top industry ("Consulting & Strategy"), pays only 5% more than tech. I would never want to live in any of our properties we bought as investments.

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Brandeis Records Manager

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Massive information analysis, tagging, metadata assignment, and classification are a few of those roles that smart machines, once trained, may cover completely: many on the legal side of our profession have already experienced this through technology-assisted review. No red herring here.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 3, 2021

. — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) March 2, 2021 If you're not familiar with hashing, how it's not the same as encryption and how it can still leave passwords vulnerable, read this primer from September first. In total, the file has 43,015 unique email addresses (including mine) which is a far cry less than the total row count.

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