Security Affairs

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Researchers from from Netlab, the network security division of Chinese tech giant Qihoo 360, have discovered a new botnet, tracked as HEH, that contains the code to wipe all data from infected systems, such as routers, IoT devices, and servers. ” reads the analysis published by the researchers.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 21, 2024

million cryptojacking scheme arrested in Ukraine Cybercrime Cryptojacker arrested in Ukraine over EUR 1.8

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Evasion and Persistence: The botnet achieves persistence in multiple ways; kills running processes, potentially competing for mining tools and eliminates EDR. Excellent analysis of the previous version by AWAKE’s Patrick Olsen: [link]. The Miner ELF binaries connect to the following mining proxy servers: 66.70.218.40:8080

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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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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

Cisco Umbrella , analyzing the threat environment for 2022, found that 86% of organizations experienced phishing, 69% experienced unsolicited crypto mining, 50% were affected by ransomware, and 48% experienced some form of information-stealing malware. Ransomware. Ransomware is the fastest-growing trend. See the Top Rootkit Scanners.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 22, 2019

Trend Micro recently discovered an Android crypto-currency mining botnet that can spread via open ADB (Android Debug Bridge) ports and Secure Shell (SSH). Security researchers at Trend Micro have discovered an new Android crypto-currency mining botnet that spreads via open ADB ( Android Debug Bridge ) ports and Secure Shell (SSH).

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 12, 2021

The botnet appeared on the threat landscape in November 2020, the attacks aimed at compromising the target systems to create an IRC botnet, which can later be used to conduct several malicious activities, including DDoS attacks and crypto-mining campaigns. ” reads the analysis published by the experts. from visual-tools.com.

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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

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

In February 2018, researchers from Proofpoint discovered a huge botnet dubbed ‘Smominru’ that was using the EternalBlue exploit to infect Windows computers and recruit them in Monero cryptocurrency mining activities. Further data, including Indicators of Compromise, are reported in the analysis published by the experts.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2020

The Outlaw Botnet uses brute force and SSH exploit (exploit Shellshock Flaw and Drupalgeddon2 vulnerability ) to achieve remote access to the target systems, including server and IoT devices. 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 3, 2018

Experts uncovered a massive cryptojacking campaign that is targeting MikroTik routers to inject a Coinhive cryptocurrency mining script in the web traffic. ” continues the analysis. The campaign was first spotted by the researcher who goes online with the Twitter handle MalwareHunterBR.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 28, 2018

reads the analysis published by Recorded Future. The shell script removes previous instances of the miner, removes specific processes, and downloads three ELF crypto mining binaries. Researchers observed that the mining account name is the same as the BitBucket account name. continues the report from Volexity.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Sustes Malware doesn’t infect victims by itself, but it is spread via brute-force activities with special focus on IoT and Linux servers. Today I’d like to share a simple analysis based on a fascinating threat that I like to call Sustes (you will see name genesis in a bit). Monero stops you trying to check wallet balance.

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erwin

JUNE 11, 2020

Data Intelligence is the analysis of multifaceted data to be used by companies to improve products and services offered and better support investments and business strategies in place. What Is Data Intelligence? Transforming Industries with Data Intelligence. Enhance customer experience. Expanding search to multiform interaction.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

It’s now commonplace for high-resolution video cams to feed endless streams of image data into increasingly intelligent data mining software. Google, Apple, Facebook and Microsoft have poured vast resources into theoretical research in the related fields of artificial intelligence, image recognition and face analysis.

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Security Affairs

JULY 13, 2019

” Avast researchers also observed crooks using DNS hijacking to deliver crypto mining scripts to users’ browsers. ” states the analysis published by Avast. In some cases the router is reconfigured to use rogue DNS servers, which redirect victims to phishing pages that closely look like real online banking sites.

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ARMA International

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

ARMA defines information as “Data that has been given value through analysis, interpretation, or compilation in a meaningful form” (ARMA 2016, p 28). DT is creating real-time data that can be “mined” to uncover information about products, customers, market trends, and financial risks. Information and Content Explosion. Data Analytics.

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ARMA International

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Another example is when sensitive information is removed from transaction data after meeting operational requirements, but the data is kept for analytical processing such as market research and trend analysis. IoT sensors attached to machinery can be time sensitive and operationally important for workplace health and safety compliance.

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

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 30, 2020

Decipher provides context, information, and analysis, not to point fingers or lay blame. Gary McGraw is a good friend of mine and I've talked to him about software security for almost two decades now. David Brumley: The set of people who haven't actually been that enthusiastic so far is IoT. Dennis Fischer: I think so too.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 30, 2020

Decipher provides context, information, and analysis, not to point fingers or lay blame. Gary McGraw is a good friend of mine and I've talked to him about software security for almost two decades now. David Brumley: The set of people who haven't actually been that enthusiastic so far is IoT. Dennis Fischer: I think so too.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 30, 2020

Decipher provides context, information, and analysis, not to point fingers or lay blame. Gary McGraw is a good friend of mine and I've talked to him about software security for almost two decades now. David Brumley: The set of people who haven't actually been that enthusiastic so far is IoT. Dennis Fischer: I think so too.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 25, 2023

Firmware attacks: Attackers target vulnerabilities in the simplified software that runs computer hard drives, printers, medical devices, and other Internet of Things (IoT) or operational technology (OT) devices to gain unauthorized access, control the devices, or use them as a launching pad for other attacks.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 17, 2019

” reads the analysis published by the expert. The analysis of sample from the last 7 days revealed that the majority of IP addresses are from the Asia Pacific region where the ThinkPHP framework is most popular. Cashdollar said that in one case, threat actors exploited the flaw to deliver a varian of the Mirai bot.

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IBM Big Data Hub

MAY 17, 2023

DaaS is an intelligent, cloud-based, multi-tenant offering for data processing, data storage and data analysis. The services are activated through access management for data collection, analysis and event monitoring in existing drones which are managed by clients and businesses.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 7, 2023

IoT (printers, IP phones, security cameras, etc.) Although the features beyond network access control and services can be valuable, they are beyond the scope of this review and will not be covered further here. Agents Forescout Platform is an agentless solution. Network infrastructure (switches, routers, wireless access points, etc.)

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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. Decoys mimic hosts running operating systems as well as IoT (Internet of Things) hosts.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JUNE 30, 2023

Other features like vendor and inventory management, reporting, analysis (e.g., In the oil and gas or mining industries, for example, there is a strong need to bring safety, reliability and compliance information into workflows. KPI dashboards or MRO inventory optimization) and audit trails are also included in CMMS software solutions.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 13, 2022

Vamosi: But as someone who wrote a book questioning the security of our mass produced IoT devices, I wonder why no one bothered to test and certify these devices before they were installed? You have to create a special environment and isolated network to do the analysis, when you turn it on. It's mine.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

So analysis of prevalence of malware typically represents only what's being seen on Windows boxes. And there was just this single function that needed to be reverse engineered, but also very complex because of all the actions that it performed, it just recursively calls itself and it makes the analysis quite hard.

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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.

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