Security Affairs

MAY 4, 2020

Hackers are conducting a mass-scanning the Internet for vulnerable Salt installs that could allow them to hack the organizations, the last victim is the Ghost blogging platform. A few hours later another security incident was reported by the media, ZDNet reported that the Node.js-based Pierluigi Paganini.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 7, 2023

Related: How AI can relieve security pros What causes spam emails? Leaked email: Companies or third-party vendors put email address security at risk when they experience data breaches. Typically, scammers want to get ahold of an email because it’s a gold mine of information. Spam emails are a security concern.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2023

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 11, 2018

With a little more investigation, I found two browser extensions that were crypto mining, which fortunately uninstalled without a problem. My high schooler fessed up immediately that he installed the crypto mining extensions just to see what would happen (and to make some money). At dinner, we had “the talk” about safe computing.

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KnowBe4

DECEMBER 13, 2020

The post 2021 Predictions Are Foolhardy – Here Are Four of Mine appeared first on MediaPRO.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Betteridge’s law of headlines says no, but according to an interesting blog from Cisco’s Talos Intelligence Group this week, criminals eager to cash in while the cryptocurrency bubble continues to inflate are increasingly taking a different approach: cutting out the middleman and using cryptominers. Ed Balls day is 28 April.).

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Security Affairs

MAY 14, 2023

Initially, they deployed and executed a separate Monero miner alongside the usual RapperBot binary, but starting from January 2023, they included the mining capabilities in the bot. The malware decodes the mining pools and Monero wallet addresses and updates the configuration before starting the embedded miner.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 22, 2022

The Lemon_Duck cryptomining botnet is targeting Docker servers to mine cryptocurrency on Linux systems. Crowdstrikes researchers reported that the Lemon_Duck cryptomining botnet is targeting Docker to mine cryptocurrency on Linux systems. “The “a.asp” file is the actual payload in this attack. ” concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

JULY 24, 2018

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. ” These are very powerful functions for debugging tools, and also useful for executing malicious code without being trapped by the usual security controls.

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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. ” Security Affairs is one of the finalists for the best European Cybersecurity Blogger Awards 2022 – VOTE FOR YOUR WINNERS.

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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. The post Cyber Security’s Impact on Climate Change: What Can Organisations Do? Get started.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 3, 2022

million, according to a report published by security researchers at Symantec. The bot focuses on cryptocurrency mining and cryptocurrency theft via clipboard hijacking. Security Affairs is one of the finalists for the best European Cybersecurity Blogger Awards 2022 – VOTE FOR YOUR WINNERS. million in illicit gains.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 15, 2022

Akamai security researchers discovered a new Golang-based P2P Botnet, tracked as Panchan, that is targeting Linux servers that has been active since March 2022. ” The botnet is engaged in cryptomining activity, the malicious code has been designed to hijack the computer’s resources to mine cryptocurrencies.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 3, 2022

The issue was reported by security firm Volexity, the company announced the availability of the security fixes for supported versions of Confluence within 24 hours (estimated time, by EOD June 3 PDT). Security Affairs is one of the finalists for the best European Cybersecurity Blogger Awards 2022 – VOTE FOR YOUR WINNERS.

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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. In many cases, this includes the RedLine Stealer and an XMRig-based cryptocurrency mining malware that is internally referred to as “ZingoMiner.”” 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

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

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 post Pro-Ukraine attackers compromise Docker images to launch DDoS attacks on Russian sites appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

And in May of this year, GoDaddy disclosed that 28,000 of its customers’ web hosting accounts were compromised following a security incident in Oct. 17 was not related to a security incident, but rather a technical issue that materialized during planned network maintenance. 2019 that wasn’t discovered until April 2020.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 9, 2024

LockBit claims responsibility for Capital Health security incident The LockBit ransomware group has claimed responsibility for an attack on Capital Health , a healthcare provider in Pennington, New Jersey, last November. They accessed 41.5 The compromised data allegedly includes names, email addresses and phone numbers.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Now for the big challenge - security. The "s" in IoT is for Security Ok, so the joke is a stupid oldie, but a hard truth lies within it: there have been some shocking instances of security lapses in IoT devices. Yeah, me either, because most of mine are probably like yours: the simplest electrical devices in the house.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 24, 2022

” reads the security advisory published by the company. 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.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Thousands of unpatched MikroTik Routers are involved in new cryptocurrency mining campaigns. Thousands of unpatched devices are mining for cryptocurrency at the moment. Even if the vendor released a security fix that addresses the flaw in April, the number of not updated routers is still very high.

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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

“Because of low security, more than 2TB of sensitive data related to weapons production was stolen from Solar Industries India Limited.” 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. ” reads the message published on the leak site.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 20, 2021

Mine was learning that KrebsOnSecurity is listed as a restricted competitor by Gartner Inc. What was the best news you heard so far this month? NYSE:IT ] — a $4 billion technology goliath whose analyst reports can move markets and shape the IT industry. Those enticements have mostly fallen on deaf ears.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 14, 2018

Earlier August, experts uncovered a massive crypto jacking campaign that was targeting MikroTik routers to inject a Coinhive cryptocurrency mining script in the web traffic. In September thousands of unpatched MikroTik Routers were involved in new cryptocurrency mining campaigns. Pierluigi Paganini. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Source: Truesec According to Telekom Security , DarkGate Loader’s developer, who goes by the name RastaFarEye, has been developing the malware since 2017 and has been advertising it as a malware-as-a-service model since 16 June 2023. This vulnerability was identified by Max Corbridge and Tom Ellson of JUMPSEC in June.

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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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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 3, 2021

Administrators overseeing the Python Package Index (PyPI) in recent days found themselves responding to vulnerabilities found in the repository of open source software, the latest security problems to hit the Python community. Python Security Under Scrutiny. Most Critical Flaw. A fix for that flaw can be found here.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 28, 2019

His blog, Krebs on Security , was knocked down alright. And since Dyn routed traffic, not just to Krebs’ blog, but also to Twitter, Spotify, Netflix, Amazon, Tumblr, Reddit and PayPal, those popular websites were offline for some 12 hours, frustrating millions. Consider what this means, from a security perspective.

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Security Affairs

MAY 6, 2022

In the above image, the cronb.sh (hash: fa98add22756cc2041f1dc372c709a4039cd0d6ae000454f728e95165be08abe) shell script does the following activities onto the server: Tries to disable security monitoring agents like aliyun in the victim system. The main objective of kinsing is to mine cryptocurrency on the vulnerable servers.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Glupteba is a rootkit that steals passwords and other access credentials, disables security software, and tries to compromise other devices on the victim network — such as Internet routers and media storage servers — for use in relaying spam or other malicious traffic. attorney to pay Google’s legal fees.

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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 post North Korea-linked APT37 targets journalists with GOLDBACKDOOR appeared first on Security Affairs.

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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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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. A message posted to the Coinhive blog on Tuesday, Feb. Trouble was, killing the key did nothing to stop Coinhive’s code from continuing to mine Monero on a hacked site. com (not safe for work).

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