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XMR crypto miner switches from arm IoT devices to X86/I686 Intel servers

Security Affairs

Akamai researcher Larry Cashdollar reported that a cryptocurrency miner that previously hit only Arm-powered IoT devices it now targeting Intel systems. The researchers revealed that one of his honeypots was hit by this IoT malware that targets Intel machines running Linux. “This one seems to target enterprise systems.”

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MY TAKE: Why monetizing data lakes will require applying ‘attribute-based’ access rules to encryption

The Last Watchdog

When you create an email archive in the cloud, you need to share secret keys to the whole dataset, so everyone can read all of the data in the cloud,” Karasawa says. The NIST standards serve as a roadmap showing how to more granularly manage access rights for people and systems without unduly burdening users or system administrators.

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Who and What is Behind the Malware Proxy Service SocksEscort?

Krebs on Security

An archived copy of the site says SSC stands for “ Server Support Company ,” which advertised outsourced solutions for technical support and server administration. md , and that they were a systems administrator for sscompany[.]net. Another domain with the Google Analytics code US-2665744 was sscompany[.]net.

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Updates from the MaaS: new threats delivered through NullMixer

Security Affairs

Most of the victims mount Windows 10 Professional and Enterprise operating systems, including several Datacenter versions of Windows Server. Some of them are also Windows Embedded, indicating the penetration of such malware operation even into IoT environments. All at the same time.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Ethical Hacking

ForAllSecure

He was indicted on charges of stealing millions of academic articles and journals from a digital archive at MIT. Now you've got in addition to all the other things that have evolved and as quickly as they have evolved, you've now got cloud and IoT. But MIT didn’t press charges.

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