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Experts spotted P2P worm spreading Crypto-Miners in the wild

Security Affairs

In the past months we published a white paper exploring the risks that users can encounter when downloading materials from P2P sharing network, such as the Torrent one. A quick recon revealed it actually is an SFX archive containing several other files. Figure 1: Content of the SFX file. tmp” and “64.tmp”, exe” suffix.

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The 773 Million Record "Collection #1" Data Breach

Troy Hunt

(I found a combination of different delimiter types including colons, semicolons, spaces and indeed a combination of different file types such as delimited text files, files containing SQL statements and other compressed archives.) What's the Risk If My Data Is in There?