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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 4 – 10 December 2023

IT Governance

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. Researchers from the German cyber security company Aplite discovered 3,806 servers from 111 countries accessible on the Internet. Source (New) Manufacturing Canada Yes 1.2

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KmsdBot, a new evasive bot for cryptomining activity and DDoS attacks

Security Affairs

Akamai Security Research discovered a new evasive Golang-based malware, tracked as KmsdBot, that infects systems via an SSH connection that uses weak login credentials. The malware was employed in cryptocurrency mining campaigns and to launch denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. ” reads the post published by Akamai.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 1 – 7 January 2024

IT Governance

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. KG Source 1 ; source 2 (New) Manufacturing Germany Yes 1.1 TB Halara Cannabis Source (New) Manufacturing USA Yes >1,000,000 Proax Technologies Ltd. They accessed 41.5

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 29 January – 4 February 2024

IT Governance

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. 38,846,799 known records breached in 140 publicly disclosed incidents Welcome to this week’s global round-up of the biggest and most interesting news stories.

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Android Botnet leverages ADB ports and SSH to spread

Security Affairs

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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FritzFrog P2P Botnet is back and targets Healthcare, Education and Government Sectors

Security Affairs

In August 2020, Guardicore Labs researchers published a detailed analysis of the threat, at the time the malware infected over 500 servers in the U.S. Experts discovered infected machines in a European television channel network, a Russian manufacturer of healthcare equipment, and multiple universities in East Asia. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Prometei botnet is targeting ProxyLogon Microsoft Exchange flaws

Security Affairs

The crypto-mining has a modular structure and employes multiple techniques to infect systems and evade detection. ” reads the analysis published by Cybereason. The post Prometei botnet is targeting ProxyLogon Microsoft Exchange flaws appeared first on Security Affairs. ” concludes the report. Pierluigi Paganini.

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