Krebs on Security

MARCH 7, 2022

One Conti top manager — aptly-named “ Stern ” because he incessantly needled Conti underlings to complete their assigned tasks — was obsessed with the idea of creating his own crypto scheme for cross-platform blockchain applications. “Like Netherium, Polkadot and Binance smart chain, etc.,”

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Security Affairs

JULY 29, 2020

The ongoing Ngrok mining botnet campaign is targeting servers are hosted on popular cloud platforms, including Alibaba Cloud, Azure, and AWS. “ Ngrok Mining Botnet is an active campaign targeting exposed Docker servers in AWS, Azure, and other cloud platforms. It has been active for at least two years.”

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

After all, why lock users’ machines and demand a ransom that they might not even pay when you can just infect their machine with software that mines for cryptocurrency without their knowledge? Wait a moment – cryptocurrency mining ? Hello and welcome to the IT Governance podcast for Friday, 2 February 2018. What’s that?

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Many questions surround the Blockchain’s compatibility with EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The CNIL is one of the first EU data protection supervisory authorities to provide guidance on the compliance of Blockchain with GDPR. What solutions for a responsible use of Blockchain involving personal data?

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CGI

MAY 13, 2018

To get the most from blockchain in government, a sharing mindset is needed. Twenty-five years later, blockchain is here and can bring those use cases to life. However, blockchain requires organizations to think about their data not as an asset they own, but as a shared resource—a shift in mindset that is not easy for everyone.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The blockchain-enabled botnet has been active since at least 2011, researchers estimate that the Glupteba botnet is currently composed of more than 1 million Windows PCs around the world. Google announced to have disrupted the Glupteba botnet, a huge infrastructure composed of more than 1 million Windows PCs worldwide.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

He has “worked around the clock” to secure assets, identify crypto on the blockchain , find records, and work with regulators and government authorities. One way is through hijacking computer resources to mine cryptocurrencies. But his latest gig appears to be the most challenging. This is no different from any other organization.

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Security Affairs

JULY 24, 2018

” The binary establishes a connection to the C&C server, then scans processes running on the compromised device and attempts to kill any that are running the CoinHive script that could be mining Monero. It is common for developers to use debugging tools with elevated privileges while they are trying to troubleshoot their code.

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Information Management Resources

JUNE 1, 2018

The credit card issuer has built a distributed ledger through which merchants create their own membership rewards and get access to detailed information on purchases and the success of promotions.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 8, 2019

Ethereum Classic (ETC) is the original unforked Ethereum blockchain, the attacks resulted in the loss of $1.1 51% attack refers to an attack on a blockchain by a group of miners that controls over 50% of the network’s mining hashrate. million worth of the digital currency. ” reads a blog post published by Coinbase.

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ARMA International

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Some technology trends such as real-time data analytics are on-going, while others are more recent, such as blockchain. Here, Part 1 discusses the key DT business drivers, concepts, and technology trends, how they are transforming organizations and society, and how the trends are affecting business users and customers.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

One particularly potent emergent technology for scammers is blockchain and the related cryptocurrency and NFTs. Blockchain supporters have touted it as a fraud prevention tool, but while blockchain can be useful in preventing certain kinds of attacks, it is incredibly vulnerable to others. billion in reported losses. Businesses.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

Fuller discovered that the INVDoS flaw could be exploited by an attacker by using malformed Bitcoin transactions that, when processed by Bitcoin blockchain nodes, would lead to uncontrolled memory resource consuption, which would trigger a DoS condition (i.e. Two years ago, the Bitcoin protocol engineer Braydon Fuller. server crash).

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2023

The blockchain-enabled botnet has been active since at least 2011, researchers estimated that the Glupteba botnet was composed of more than 1 million Windows PCs around the world as of December 2021. Google obtained a temporary court order in the U.S. to disrupt the operations of the CryptBot information stealer.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Khafagy’s LinkedIn profile says he is currently founder of LewkLabs , a Dubai-based “blockchain-powered, SocialFi content monetization platform” that last year reported funding of $3.26 . “This number is probably higher, but we don’t have a full visibility of the botnet. million from private investors.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

com , a cryptocurrency mining service that has been heavily abused to force hacked Web sites to mine virtual currency. Coinhive took a whopping 30 percent of the cut of all Monero currency mined by its code, and this presented something of a conflict of interest when it came to stopping the rampant abuse of its platform.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JUNE 30, 2023

See IBM MRO IO in action by reading about how Shell and IBM ​jointly developed and launched Oren, a global B2B mining services marketplace platform to gain more productivity in the $190 billion mining industry. Delays in repairs can often mean supply chain disruptions.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JUNE 30, 2023

See IBM MRO IO in action by reading about how Shell and IBM jointly developed and launched Oren, a global B2B mining services marketplace platform to gain more productivity in the $190 billion mining industry. But with the right tools, tactics and collaboration, it doesn’t have to be this way. Visibility.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 31, 2019

It would steal cookies aby website that has “blockchain” in their domain name. CookieMiner configures the compromised systems to load coinmining software that appears like an XMRIG-type miner, but that mines Koto, a lesser popular cryptocurrency associated with Japan. ” reads the analysis published by PaloAlto Networks.

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Data Matters

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) issued two investor alerts, on July 27 and August 16 , regarding blockchain tokens and ICOs. On August 28, the North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA) released an update on the progress of its ongoing Operation Cryptosweep. securities laws. securities laws.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 28, 2018

Suppose I open a new address and pay into it three stolen bitcoin followed by seven freshly-mined ones. Ilia Shumailov has written software that applies FIFO tainting to the blockchain and the results are impressive, with a massive improvement in precision. It's not just good law; it's good computer science too.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 4, 2023

This allows currencies to maintain their decentralized ledger—the blockchain—but requires enormous amounts of energy. Most notably, the “proof of stake” system enables participants to maintain their blockchain by depositing cryptocurrency holdings in a pool. percent of global CO 2 emissions.

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erwin

JUNE 11, 2020

With tools such as Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Data Mining, businesses and organizations can collate and analyze large amounts of data reliably and more efficiently. Data intelligence can encompass both internal and external business data and information. Transforming Industries with Data Intelligence.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JANUARY 25, 2019

Big data, data breaches, data mining, data science…Today, we’re all about the data. I have spent 30-plus years in the tech and media industries, mainly as a journalist, observer, and founder of companies that either make or support journalism and storytelling. For whatever reason, I did this by founding or co-founding companies.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

This week, we discuss the use of cryptocurrency mining software on numerous government websites, a phishing scam that robbed Bee Token investors of $1 million and cyber attacks on the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics. I mentioned cyber criminals’ increasing use of cryptocurrency mining or ‘cryptomining’ software a couple of weeks ago.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Nor am I going to wade into the debate about the ecological consequences of mining cryptocurrencies. For some people, crypto means cryptography. For others, it means cryptocurrency. Fortunately, in this episode, we’re discussing vulnerabilities in both. That means it falls to you to protect your cryptocurrency.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Another “canary in the coal mine” episode showcasing this trend happened just last week, with a sizeable breach of HSBC U.S. With digital transformation technologies like cloud, big data, IoT, containers, mobile payments and blockchain all in play, there are many new attack surfaces and risks to financial data. banking customers.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 28, 2022

Microleaves , a ten-year-old proxy service that lets customers route their web traffic through millions of Microsoft Windows computers, recently fixed a vulnerability in their website that exposed their entire user database. The Microleaves proxy service, which is in the process of being rebranded to Shifter[.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Also read: The State of Blockchain Applications in Cybersecurity. There are few guarantees in the IT industry, but one certainty is that as the world steps into 2022, ransomware will continue to be a primary cyberthreat. A pair of recent reports underscores just how big that threat is. It is because of the cash cow.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 9, 2024

Capital Health operates two hospitals in the New Jersey-Pennsylvania region: Regional Medical Center in Trenton and Capital Health Medical Center in Hopewell. Data breached: >10 million records. HealthEC LLC breached, almost 4.5 Information relating to nearly 4.5 Source (New) Legal USA Yes 310,297 Bit24.cash

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ARMA International

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Some technology trends such as real-time data analytics are on-going, while others are more recent, such as blockchain. Part 1 discussed the key DT business drivers, concepts, and technology trends, how they are transforming organizations and society, and how they are affecting business users and customers. Enabling CS for DT.

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MIKE 2.0

OCTOBER 28, 2017

Good examples of changes that are coming with more that is unknown than known include cyber currencies, blockchain, quantum computing, artificial intelligence, smart cities, augmented reality and additive manufacturing. I recently heard a financial services executive on the radio talking about Bitcoin.

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CILIP

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Big Data, Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence are all in the headlines ? one is to add blockchain to just about any project to make it seem all magical and sparkly, and the other is to treat just about anything done by a computer as ?AI? s Near Future Library Symposium. s perfectly obvious that this or that change was inevitable.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Taylor Monahan is founder and CEO of MetaMask , a popular software cryptocurrency wallet used to interact with the Ethereum blockchain. The threat actor moved stolen funds from multiple victims to the same blockchain addresses, making it possible to strongly link those victims.”

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

In 2018 Group-IB detected five successful “51% attacks”, when attackers take control over at least 51% of mining power. Having 51% of computing power, the attackers create a stealthy alternative blockchain to confirm their own transactions. In 2018 the direct financial losses from these attacks amounted to almost $20 million.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

AUGUST 25, 2014

Both are run by great colleagues of mine – so I already know a lot about their businesses. Runners up : Basno , a bitcoin blockchain company, and Glimpse , whose founder is doing a session on the ups and downs of running a startup. October 1st. 9 am - Tumblr. I knew the company back before it was acquired by Yahoo!,

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John Battelle's Searchblog

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Amazon is all about big business – a platform giant (Amazon) disrupting an OldBigCo (Walmart and its kin). Over the past two decades, Amazon bumped Walmart out of the race to a trillion-dollar market cap, and the OldCo from Bentonville had to reset and play the role of the upstart. So why aren’t new places launching?

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