Security Affairs

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Further analysis revealed that the malware has been used since at least 2017. ” reads the analysis published by Kaspersky. While investigating this malware, Kaspersky also discovered an apparently related ransomware variant called. Similarities include the Tor client and multiple modules observed in StripedFly.

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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. Researchers believe that the Migo developers possess knowledge of the malware analysis process, implementing extra measures to obscure symbols and strings within the pclntab structure, thereby complicating reverse engineering.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Since the beginning of the year, security firms observed a new intense ransomware campaign spreading the Shade ransomware. Between January and February, a new, intense, ransomware campaign has been observed by many security firms. Trend of malicious JavaScript downloading Shade ransomware (source: ESET).

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 21, 2024

Admin of the BreachForums hacking forum sentenced to 20 years supervised release Russia-linked Midnight Blizzard APT hacked Microsoft corporate emails VF Corp December data breach impacts 35 million customers China-linked APT UNC3886 exploits VMware zero-day since 2021 Ransomware attacks break records in 2023: the number of victims rose by 128% U.S.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Security expert Marco Ramilli analyzed a new piece of malware apparently designed to target PIK-Group that implements ransomware , Trojan, and Miner capabilities. The second stage drops and executes three additional modules: a backdoor, a Miner and finally a quite known Ransomware. exe) looks like a well-known Troldesh Ransomware.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

Encrypted threats spiked 167%, ransomware increased 105%, and 5.4 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.

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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

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Palo Alto Network researchers discovered a new malware, tracked as XBash, that combines features from ransomware, cryptocurrency miners, botnets, and worms. The malicious code combines features from different families of malware such as ransomware, cryptocurrency miners, botnets, and worms. ” continues the report.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 25, 2021

. “These particular applications are targeted because they often run on systems that have powerful underlying hardware with significant amounts of memory and powerful CPUs—all of which allow threat actors to maximize their ability to monetize these resources through mining cryptocurrency.” Ransomware, data theft).

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 21, 2021

QNAP is warning customers of a new piece of malware dubbed Dovecat that is targeting NAS devices to mine cryptocurrency. The malware was designed to abuse NAS resources and mine cryptocurrency. “According to analysis, QNAP NAS can become infected when they are connected to the Internet with weak user passwords.”

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Ransomware accounted for over half of all malicious mailings in H1 2019, Troldesh aka Shade being the most popular tool among cybercriminals. The report’s findings reveal that email remains the main method of delivering ransomware, banking Trojans, and backdoors. The revival of ransomware. Financial departments at high risk.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 8, 2019

If a sample is found to be suspicious, we then process it using a custom-built static analysis tool and a dynamic analysis sandbox. Ransomware evolved into cryptomining, in which the device is stealthily used to participate in the mining of cryptocurrencies, with the coins delivered to the threat actor.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2023

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 5, 2018

A security researcher discovered a new crypto mining worm dubbed ZombieBoy that leverages several exploits to evade detection. The security researcher James Quinn has spotted a new strain of crypto mining worm dubbed ZombieBoy that appears to be very profitable and leverages several exploits to evade detection.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 17, 2019

” reads the analysis published by the experts. Graboid is the first-ever Cryptojacking worm found in images on Docker Hub, the analysis conducted by the experts shows that, on average, each miner is active 63% of the time, with the mining periods being of 250 seconds. ” continues the analysis.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2021

The crypto-mining has a modular structure and employes multiple techniques to infect systems and evade detection. ” reads the analysis published by Cybereason. “The victimology is quite random and opportunistic rather than highly targeted, which makes it even more dangerous and widespread. . ” concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 28, 2019

The Retadup bot has been around since at least 2015, it was involved in several malicious campaigns aimed at delivering malware such as information stealers, ransomware and miners. Since it was the C&C server’s responsibility to give mining jobs to the bots, none of the bots received any new mining jobs to execute after this takedown.”

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

” A new wave of attacks could exploit the vulnerability to spread more dangerous and destructive malware, like ransomware or spyware. Below the Tweet published by Microsoft: While we currently see only coin miners being dropped, we agree w/ the research community that CVE-2019-0708 (BlueKeep) exploitation can be big.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 25, 2019

At least 23 Texas local governments targeted by coordinated ransomware attacks. Malware Analysis Sandboxes could expose sensitive data of your organization. Employees abused systems at Ukrainian nuclear power plant to mine cryptocurrency. Once again thank you! Capital One hacker suspected to have breached other 30 companies.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 27, 2021

With the rise in malware and ransomware and a growing reliance on the internet, antivirus solutions are critical for protecting your data and applications. Multi-layer ransomware protection. Ransomware protection. 45-$50 a year is cheaper and easier than getting your identity stolen or your computer locked by ransomware.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 12, 2018

. · Group-IB experts record a massive surge of user data leaks form cryptocurrency exchanges. · HP releases firmware updates for two critical RCE flaws in Inkjet Printers. · TSMC Chip Maker confirms its facilities were infected with WannaCry ransomware. · GitHub started warning users when adopting compromised credentials. · (..)

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 8, 2018

DDoS attacks, ransomware-based campaigns, cryptocurrency mining campaigns). ” reads the analysis published by Checkpoint security. Ngioweb represents a multifunctional proxy server which uses its own binary protocol with two layers of encryption,” continues the analysis published by Checkpoint. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JULY 23, 2019

Technical Analysis. Figure 4: Evicends of the mining routine. Stratum is the de-facto standard protocol used by crypto-miners to connect to mining pools. Figure 5: Connection routine to the mining server. Technical details, including IoCs and Yara Rules, are available in the analysis published in the Yoroi blog.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

. “The Australian Signals Directorate’s Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC), with its state and territory partners, is continuing to respond to the widespread malware campaign known as Emotet while responding to reports that hackers are exploiting the BlueKeep vulnerability to mine cryptocurrency.” ” Noble added.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 15, 2020

Black Kingdom ransomware operators are targeting organizations using unpatched Pulse Secure VPN software to deploy their malware. Black Kingdom ransomware was first spotted in late February by security researcher GrujaRS. Black Kingdom ransomware was first spotted in late February by security researcher GrujaRS.

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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. Welcome to this week’s round-up of the biggest and most interesting news stories. Publicly disclosed data breaches and cyber attacks: in the spotlight Hathaway breached, 41.5

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 29, 2018

NTA refers to using advanced data mining and security analytics techniques to detect and investigate malicious activity in traffic moving between each device and on every critical system in a company network. Network traffic analytics, or NTA , just may be that pivotal step forward. Related: How the Uber hack pivoted off of DevOps.

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ARMA International

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

This part will also discuss managing CS risks such as ransomware, privacy, change management, and user adoption. 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. Introduction.

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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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ARMA International

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

This part will also discuss managing CS risks such as ransomware, privacy, change management, and user adoption. ARMA defines information as “Data that has been given value through analysis, interpretation, or compilation in a meaningful form” (ARMA 2016, p 28). Introduction. Information and Content Explosion. Data Analytics.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

The arsenal of attackers includes data stealers, cryptocurrency miners, and ransomware, that literally hit victims from all sides. “ Cybereason is following an active campaign to deliver an arsenal of malware that is able to steal data, mine for cryptocurrency , and deliver ransomware to victims all over the world.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 31, 2022

In December 2018, the company provided an update to its initial analysis revealing a disconcerting scenario, UPnProxy was still up and running. ” reads the analysis published by Akamai. The UPnP communication protocol is widely adopted even if it is known to be vulnerable.

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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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IT Governance

DECEMBER 11, 2023

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. suffers second ransomware attack in months Having been struck by a ransomware attack in October by the BlackSuit group , which led to operations and appointments being postponed, Akumin Inc.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 6, 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. According to Bleeping Computer, the Cactus ransomware gang stole “terabytes of corporate data”, which it’s threatening to leak if a ransom isn’t paid. of the Standard.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Botnets ransomware well, you get the. So analysis of prevalence of malware typically represents only what's being seen on Windows boxes. So perhaps Bitcoin mining Well, cryptocurrency mining was in their mind. For the hacker mine I remain your war dialing buddy Robert from.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 13, 2022

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. It's mine. I've just done my own analysis and some reverse engineering tools like binary ninja and things like that.

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