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Hack Yourself First Workshops in Australia, Denmark and Portugal (Virtually, of Course)

Troy Hunt

Of course it's virtual because let's face it, nobody is going anywhere at the moment. I want to talk about 3 upcoming events which Scott Helme and I are going to be running our Hack Yourself First workshop at starting with this one: NDC Security Australia, 26-27 March, AU$800 This is an extra special event that we've only just decided to run.

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MY TAKE: The no. 1 reason ransomware attacks persist: companies overlook ‘unstructured data’

The Last Watchdog

All too many companies lack a full appreciation of how vital it has become to proactively manage and keep secure “unstructured data.”. Structured data can be human- or machine-generated, and is easily searchable information usually stored in a database, including names, Social Security numbers, phone numbers, ZIP codes. Delete data.

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Cryptojacking campaign uses Shodan to scan for Docker hosts to hack

Security Affairs

This script also starts an SSH daemon inside the container for remote communication.” “The script then calls a Monero coin-mining binary, darwin (detected as PUA.Linux.XMRMiner.AA), to run in the background. It also checks if the Docker host already runs a cryptocurrency-mining container and delete it if it exists.

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GoDaddy Employees Used in Attacks on Multiple Cryptocurrency Services

Krebs on Security

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. In due course, the malicious actor was able to partially compromise our infrastructure, and gain access to document storage.” ” In the early morning hours of Nov.

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Catches of the Month: Phishing Scams for September 2023

IT Governance

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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Threat Group TeamTNT Returns with New Cloud Attacks

eSecurity Planet

Also read: Top Container Security Solutions. All internet communications, including SSL and SSH, rely on private and public keys for encryption. The attackers hijack the idle processing power of the targeted machines to mine cryptocurrency. Read next: How to Control API Security Risks.

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Torii botnet, probably the most sophisticated IoT botnet of ever

Security Affairs

Security researchers spotted a new IoT botnet, tracked as Torii, that appears much more sophisticated and stealth of the numerous Mirai variants previously analyzed. Experts said that the bot component communicates with the CnC with active polling in an endless loop, waiting for commands to execute. ” concludes the analysis.

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