Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2024

Security experts at Deep Instinct Threat Lab have uncovered a targeted campaign against Ukraine, exploiting a Microsoft Office vulnerability dating back almost seven years to deploy Cobalt Strike on compromised systems. It’s a PPSX file, seemingly an outdated US Army manual for tank mine clearing blades (MCB).

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Security Affairs

JULY 24, 2018

It is common for developers to use debugging tools with elevated privileges while they are trying to troubleshoot their code. In an ideal world, all of the security controls are applied and all of the debugging tools are removed or disabled before the code is released to the public. But crooks can abuse them too.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2021

A new Linux botnet uses Tor through a network of proxies using the Socks5 protocol, abuses legitimate DevOps tools, and other emerging techniques. ” reads the analysis published by Trend Micro. This is the first bot that abuses the infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools , such as Ansible , Chef , and Salt Stack.

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Security Affairs

MAY 3, 2024

In January, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), National Security Agency (NSA), US Cyber Command, and international partners released a joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) to warn that Russia-linked threat actors are using compromised Ubiquiti EdgeRouters to evade detection in cyber operations worldwide. ” reported Trend Micro.

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Security Affairs

MAY 26, 2021

” reads the analysis published by Trend Micro. The TeamTNT botnet is a crypto-mining malware operation that has been active since April 2020 and that targets Docker installs. The TeamTNT botnet is a crypto-mining malware operation that has been active since April 2020 and that targets Docker installs.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Researchers spotted a cryptocurrency mining campaign targeting Linux users with Go-based CHAOS malware (Trojan.Linux.CHAOSRAT). In November 2022, Trend Micro researchers discovered a cryptocurrency mining campaign targeting Linux users with Go-based CHAOS malware (Trojan.Linux.CHAOSRAT). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

The financially motivated TeamTNT hacking group expanded its arsenal with new tools used to target thousands of victims worldwide. Evidence collected by the experts suggests that the campaign began on July 25, 2021, threat actors used a large set of open-source tools in the attacks. ” reads the analysis published by AT&T.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 11, 2018

Group-IB is recording new outbreaks of illegal mining (cryptojacking) threats in the networks of commercial and state organizations. Group-IB, an international company specializing in the prevention of cyberattacks, is recording new outbreaks of illegal mining (cryptojacking) threats in the networks of commercial and state organizations.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 11, 2020

Microsoft’s Azure Security Center (ASC) is warning of a hacking campaign that targets Kubeflow, a machine learning toolkit for Kubernetes. ” Hackers are targeting Kubernetes clusters because nodes used from ML operations have huge computational capabilies making them ideal for fraudulent mining purposes. Pierluigi Paganini.

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IT Governance

MARCH 29, 2022

IT Governance found more than 1,200 publicly disclosed security incidents in 2021 , which correlates to society’s increasingly reliance on computers and the expanding influence that criminal hackers have. Then there’s blockchain mining. Most obviously, cyber crime by its nature involves the use of computers, which consume energy.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2023

Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free for you in your email box. A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Security researchers discovered a new botnet, named Abcbot , that focused on Chinese cloud hosting providers over the past months. In November, researchers from Qihoo 360’s Netlab security team spotted the Abcbot botnet that was targeting Linux systems to launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 30, 2021

The expert determined the number of cryptocurrencies that were mined to a mining pool account by inspecting the mining pool. Half of the images discovered by the expert were using a shared mining pool, by he estimated that threat actors mined US$200,000 worth of cryptocurrencies in a two-year period.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 20, 2022

I had the chance at RSA Conference 2022 to visit with John Shier, senior security advisor at Sophos, a security software and hardware company. It might be someone who specializes in embedding droppers – a type of malware delivery tool designed to stealthily install the endgame payload, Shier says. Teeming criminal activity.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 30, 2023

Most of the tools are open-source, meaning that actors can readily adapt and modify to suit their needs. Many developers take credit on different iterations of the tools.” AlienFox collects lists of misconfigured cloud endpoints through security scanning platforms like LeakIX and SecurityTrails. Tool1, Tool2).

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 13, 2021

” reads the analysis published by Microsoft. ” Talos researchers also updated the list of IOCs to include information about mining activity carried out by exploiting the CVE-2021-44228 flaw. The researchers spotted mining activity aimed at delivering of the Kinsing crypto-miner. Pierluigi Paganini.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

However, basic cybersecurity tools and practices, like patching , strong passwords , and multi-factor authentication (MFA), “can prevent 80 to 90% of cyberattacks,” said Anne Neuberger, deputy national security advisor for cyber and emerging technologies, during a White House press conference in Sept. Types of Cyberattacks.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 25, 2021

. “These techniques include numerous modules that exploit implicit trust, weak passwords, and unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities in popular applications, including Secure Shell (SSH), IT administration tools, a variety of cloud-based applications, and databases.” ” continues the analysis.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The analysis of the scripts executed in the attacks and the tools used to deliver the miners allowed the researchers to link the campaign to TeamTNT. ” reads the analysis published by Trend Micro. . ” reads the analysis published by Trend Micro. ” continues the analysis. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

The flaw was discovered by the security researcher Voidfyoo from Chaitin Security Research Lab, it was addressed in Oracle’s October 2020 Critical Patch Update. In early November, Oracle issued an out-of-band security update to address another critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2020-14882.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 7, 2022

The candid messages revealed how Conti evaded law enforcement and intelligence agencies , what it was like on a typical day at the Conti office , and how Conti secured the digital weaponry used in their attacks. Before that, Jeffrey Ladish , an information security consultant based in Oakland, Calif., We start ddosing.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 1, 2020

Cybersecurity researchers spotted a crypto-mining botnet, tracked as Vollgar, that has been hijacking MSSQL servers since at least 2018. Researchers at Guardicore Labs discovered a crypto-mining botnet , tracked as Vollgar botnet , that is targeting MSSQL databases since 2018. ” reads the analysis published by Guardicore.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

All too many companies lack a full appreciation of how vital it has become to proactively manage and keep secure “unstructured data.”. Structured data can be human- or machine-generated, and is easily searchable information usually stored in a database, including names, Social Security numbers, phone numbers, ZIP codes. Delete data.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 16, 2022

MCCrash enumerates default credentials on Internet-exposed Secure Shell (SSH)-enabled devices. According to Microsoft, the initial infections were caused by the installation of malicious cracking tools that purport to acquire illegal Windows licenses. ” reads the post published by Microsoft. ark—event[.]net onto the device.

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Security Affairs

JULY 15, 2022

Dragos experts investigated an infection of DirectLogic PLCs from Automation Direct, they performed reverse engineering of the password cracking tool and discovered it did not crack the password at all, rather, it exploited a vulnerability in the firmware to retrieve the password on command. ” reads the advisory published by Dragos.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 21, 2021

Data privacy regulations like the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) can be hard to navigate for businesses of any size, but GRC tools can simplify and streamline compliance with all of the requirements. Contents: Top GRC tools comparison. Top GRC tools comparison.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Security experts at Symantec have discovered eight potentially unwanted applications (PUAs) into the Microsoft Store that were dropping cryptojacking Coinhive miners. ” reads the analysis published by Symantec. Then the mining script is activated and starts abusing devices resources to mine Monero cryptocurrency.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Security researcher Tolijan Trajanovski ( @tolisec ) analyzed the multi-vector Miner+Tsunami Botnet that implements SSH lateral movement. A fellow security researcher, 0xrb , shared with me samples of a botnet that propagates using weblogic exploit. Excellent analysis of the previous version by AWAKE’s Patrick Olsen: [link].

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2020

— Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) April 28, 2020. ” reads the Tweet published by the Microsoft Security Intelligence team. . ” reads the Tweet published by the Microsoft Security Intelligence team. The in-memory DLL then injects a coin-mining code into notepad.exe through process hollowing.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 25, 2019

The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Intel addresses High-Severity flaws in NUC Firmware and other tools. Malware Analysis Sandboxes could expose sensitive data of your organization. The gang deploys new tools on its worldwide tour. Cisco released 4CAN hardware tool to find flaws in automotive computers. .

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Researchers from security firm Check Point uncovered a new Office malware builder called APOMacroSploit, which was employed in attacks that targeted more than 80 customers worldwide. The threat actor behind the tool continuously updated it to evade detection. . ” reads the analysis published by the researchers.

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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

Researchers at Cyberbit spotted a crypto mining campaign that infected more than 50% of the European airport workstations. . Security experts at Cyberbit have uncovered a crypto mining campaign that infected more than 50% of the European airport workstations. . ” reads the analysis published by Cyberbit. .

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The TeamTNT botnet is a crypto-mining malware operation that has been active since April 2020 and targets Docker installs. ” reads the analysis published by AquaSec. They had used many tools and techniques in their campaigns and had launched them frequently. be on IP 93[.]95[.]229[.]203).” Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 27, 2021

Researchers discovered six rogue packages in the official Python programming language’s PyPI repository containg cryptocurrency mining malware. Experts from security firm Sonatype have uncovered six typosquatting packages in the official Python programming language’s PyPI repository that were laced with cryptomining malware.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JULY 6, 2023

It uses advanced tools to look at raw data, gather a data set, process it, and develop insights to create meaning. Areas making up the data science field include mining, statistics, data analytics, data modeling, machine learning modeling and programming. What is machine learning?

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

” reads the analysis published by ESET. The experts pointed out that Kobalos has not been used to abuse infected supercomputers for cryptocurrency mining. ESET researchers also noticed that attackers deployed on the infected systems a tool designed to steal credentials from SSH clients. Pierluigi Paganini.

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