Security Affairs

JUNE 18, 2022

MaliBot disguises itself as a cryptocurrency mining app named “Mining X” or “The CryptoApp”, experts also observed the malicious code masqueraded as “MySocialSecurity” and “Chrome” apps. Please vote for Security Affairs and Pierluigi Paganini in every category that includes them (e.g. To nominate, please visit:?.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 3, 2022

The bot focuses on cryptocurrency mining and cryptocurrency theft via clipboard hijacking. Please vote for Security Affairs and Pierluigi Paganini in every category that includes them (e.g. sections “The Underdogs – Best Personal (non-commercial) Security Blog” and “The Tech Whizz – Best Technical Blog”) To nominate, please visit:?

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Security Affairs

JUNE 15, 2022

” The botnet is engaged in cryptomining activity, the malicious code has been designed to hijack the computer’s resources to mine cryptocurrencies. Please vote for Security Affairs and Pierluigi Paganini in every category that includes them (e.g. “The malware deploys two miners — xmrig and nbhash. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 15, 2022

The crimeware allows operators to steal information from infected systems and abuse its resources to mine Monero. The malicious code is able to harvest system metadata and information stored by popular web browsers, including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, and Opera GX. To nominate, please visit:? Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2023

The botnet was involved in stealing users’ credentials and data, mining cryptocurrencies abusing victims’ resources, and setting up proxies to funnel other people’s internet traffic through infected machines and routers.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 3, 2022

In September 2021, Trend Micro researchers spotted crypto-mining campaigns that were actively exploiting a recently disclosed critical remote code execution vulnerability in Atlassian Confluence deployments across Windows and Linux. Please vote for Security Affairs and Pierluigi Paganini in every category that includes them (e.g.

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Security Affairs

MAY 4, 2022

” The technique to compromise Dockers containers is widely adopted by financially-motivated threat actors, like LemonDuck or TeamTNT to abuse their resources and mine cryptocurrencies. The experts noticed that the Docker images’ target lists overlap with domains shared by the Ukraine IT Army (UIA). To nominate, please visit:?

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Security Affairs

MAY 17, 2022

“As for the fake cryptocurrency miner apps, their operators not only try to profit from their victims by duping them into buying fake cloud-based cryptocurrency-mining services, but they also try to harvest private keys and other sensitive cryptocurrency-related information from users who are interested in what they offer.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2023

Nominate here: [link] Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter ) The post Security Affairs newsletter Round 417 by Pierluigi Paganini – International edition appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 8, 2019

Avast spotted a new strain of Clipsa malware that is used to mine and steal cryptocurrencies along with carrying out brute-force attacks on WordPress sites. Clipsa is a malware that is well known to cyber security community is able to steal cryptocurrency via clipoard hijacking and mine cryptocurrency after installing a miner. .

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Security Affairs

APRIL 24, 2022

Customers that are using any apps listed in the Determining which apps are affected section and all versions of the app are affected can mitigate the security risk by disabling the app until they’re able to install a fixed version of Jira or Jira Service Management. The vulnerability was reported by Khoadha of Viettel Cyber Security.

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Security Affairs

MAY 18, 2022

One of the threat types that surfaced and thrived since the introduction of cryptocurrency, cryptojackers are mining malware that hijacks and consumes a target’s device resources for the former’s gain and without the latter’s knowledge or consent. Below is a list of threats that are currently leveraging cryptocurrency: Cryptojackers.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 26, 2023

The group invites anyone wishing to bid on all Solar Group data within 24 hours of the publication of its blog to contact them in TOX. It is interesting to notice that the gang claims have serious evidence of industrial spying in other countries (including friendly states).

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

This week, we discuss new reports from Cisco, McAfee and the CSIS, and Big Brother Watch, and hear more about malicious Monero mining. Cyber security reports are a bit like the proverbial London omnibus: you seem to wait for ages, then several come along at once. Here are this week’s stories. It was a paltry $24.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Uptycs has already shared details about remediation and detection steps for its customers in the previous blog. In this blog post, we will talk about various malware categories that attackers are taking advantage of the Log4j vulnerability. Xmrig is an open sourced Monero CPU Miner used to mine Monero cryptocurrency. Coinminers.

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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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Security Affairs

MAY 6, 2022

On executing the above shell script (hash: 05a65e666492dd8ec5ab0985e5395967bc7bed03e9aaca11cdb9351873093382), the Xmrig miner gets downloaded from github and mining gets started (see Figure 8). The main objective of kinsing is to mine cryptocurrency on the vulnerable servers. Figure 9: xmrig getting downloaded. Conclusion.

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Security Affairs

JULY 25, 2019

Experts at Intezer researchers have spotted a strain of the Linux mining that also scans the Internet for Windows RDP servers vulnerable to the Bluekeep. ” reads a blog post published by Intezer. ” reads a blog post published by Intezer.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2022

The phishing messages sent to the journalists contained a link to ZIP archives containing LNK files, both named ‘Kang Min-chol edits’ (Kang Min-chol is North Korea’s Minister of Mining Industries). The archive was hosted on the domain dailynk[.]us us which impersonates NK News (dailynk[.]com), To nominate, please visit:?

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2023

Experts warn of a large-scale cryptocurrency mining campaign exploiting Kubernetes (K8s) Role-Based Access Control ( RBAC ). Cloud security firm Aqua discovered a large-scale cryptocurrency mining campaign exploiting Kubernetes (K8s) Role-Based Access Control ( RBAC ) to create backdoors and run miners.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 28, 2019

” reads a blog post published by Avast. 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.” The server instructed the bot to remove itself from infected machines. ” continues Avast.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 8, 2021

“The loader decrypts the malicious malware and executes it using memfd create (as described in this blog in 2018). Experts pointed out that while this technique common in Windows malware, it is rare in Linux attacks. ” reads the post published by AT&T’s Alien Labs.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Certain features in the latest versions of iOS and macOS require this extra level of security, which is designed to protect your information. That’s why information security awareness training for all staff is so important – especially when anyone in the organisation can cause a data breach.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

reads a blog post published by Hutchins. Read our latest blog w/ assist from @GossiTheDog & @MalwareTechBlog [link] — Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) November 7, 2019. Due to only smaller size kernel dumps being enabled, it is difficult to arrive at a definite root cause.”

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2020

New blog: The threat actor BISMUTH, which has been running increasingly complex targeted attacks, deployed coin miners in campaigns from July to August 2020. Learn how the group tried to stay under the radar using threats perceived to be less alarming: [link] — Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) November 30, 2020. .

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The Texas Record

JUNE 28, 2021

When we talk about records management on this blog, we often use the “R.I.M.” ” or “RIM” acronym as a shorthand way to refer to the “records and information management” field. Still, you can put the data to work—it is an information asset!

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

This week, in our last podcast of the year, we revisit some of the biggest information security stories from the past 12 months. As is now traditional, I’ve installed myself in the porter’s chair next to the fire in the library, ready to recap some of the year’s more newsworthy information security events.

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IT Governance

MARCH 16, 2018

This explanation makes more sense on the page – have a look at the transcript on our blog to see what I mean.). Until next time you can keep up with the latest information security news on our blog. Microsoft’s updates for March fix 75 vulnerabilities, 15 of which are critical. Test and apply.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 25, 2019

The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Hi folk, let me inform you that I suspended the newsletter service, anyway I’ll continue to provide you a list of published posts every week through the blog. Employees abused systems at Ukrainian nuclear power plant to mine cryptocurrency. Once again thank you!

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Security Affairs

JULY 13, 2019

” reads a blog post published by Avast. ” Avast researchers also observed crooks using DNS hijacking to deliver crypto mining scripts to users’ browsers. . “Avast frequently observes malvertising infections on local Brazilian websites that host adult content, illegal movies or sports content.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 12, 2018

In this blog post, and in one by my colleague Sandy Carielli from Entrust Datacard, we discuss big data analytics and how it is enabling the evolution of new behavior-based authentication for easier and more robust identity management. For years identity management has relied on three factors for authentication: What one knows (passwords).

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Security Affairs

JULY 23, 2019

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. The Payload. exe” or “64.exe”

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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.”

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CGI

JULY 5, 2018

A new and quickly spreading phenomenon is to steal computing power to mine cryptocurrencies. Cryptocurrency mining uses a lot of computing power and electricity because the mathematical problems connected to mining are difficult to solve. If you pay for the electricity and devices you use, mining will be costly.

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Security Affairs

MAY 14, 2022

These ports have maximized their cargo turnover through cooperation with JSC Russian Railways which delivers coal from the mining sites to the ports. Port and Railway Projects Service of JSC UMMC operates the two largest ports in Russia specializing in coal shipments. To nominate, please visit:? Pierluigi Paganini.

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ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

And the rest, they say is this as a reporter, I was in a position to learn as I wrote about information security. Vamosi: Welcome to the hacker mind that original podcast from for all secure. And my editor turned to me and said, What do you know about computer viruses? But what if you're on your own? I'm Robert Vamosi.

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Brandeis Records Manager

MAY 27, 2015

The content in this blog reflects the opinions of the author, and not of Brandeis University.). We made early acquaintances with Legal and Information Security leaders. George Despres, University Records Manager, Brandeis University. What a year and a half it has been! All of these get the URM word out in one way or another.

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