Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

18 Central European Time (CET), cyptocurrency mining service NiceHash disccovered that some of the settings for its domain registration records at GoDaddy were changed without authorization, briefly redirecting email and web traffic for the site. ” In the early morning hours of Nov.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

BHProxies sells access to “residential proxy” networks, which allow someone to rent a residential IP address to use as a relay for their Internet communications, providing anonymity and the advantage of being perceived as a residential user surfing the web.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 12, 2020

Several stories here have highlighted the importance of creating accounts online tied to your various identity, financial and communications services before identity thieves do it for you. Armed with access to your inbox, thieves can then reset the password for any other service or account that is tied to that email address.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 1, 2019

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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Security Affairs

AUGUST 31, 2019

The Android Debug Bridge (adb) is a command-line tool that allows developers to communicate with an Android device. In June, Trend Micro discovered an Android crypto-currency mining botnet that can spread via open ADB (Android Debug Bridge) ports and Secure Shell (SSH). . ” reads the analysis published by the experts.

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Malwarebytes reports that, once installed, DarkGate Loader can be used for many nefarious purposes, including “remote access, cryptocurrency mining, keylogging, clipboard stealing, and information stealing”.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Before it was taken offline sometime in the past 12 hours, the database contained millions of records, including the username, password and private encryption key of each mSpy customer who logged in to the mSpy site or purchased an mSpy license over the past six months. ” Some of those “points of access” were mine.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 13, 2021

million customers impacted. million customers impacted.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

“I suspect it’s probably a derivate of other IoT crypto mining botnets,” Cashdollar told The Register. Additionally, the malware installs a shell script that uses to communicate with the command and control server. “This one seems to target enterprise systems.” It gain s persistence by adding entries to crontab.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 10, 2022

That means hackers will increasingly mimic nation-state threat groups by establishing a long-term presence inside networks to mine highly sensitive data. Every workload could communicate with the domain controller. The Jump host workload from the Staging environment could access every host in the Production environment using RDP.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 17, 2024

Private keys might be shared either through a previously established trusted communication channel (such as a private courier or secured line) or, more practically, a secure key exchange method (such as the Diffie-Hellman key agreement ). Instead, services like online banking portals will only collect and store the hashes of user passwords.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2020

The records that can be compromised by exploiting the SQLi vulnerability in Street Mobster potentially include the players’ usernames, email addresses, and passwords, as well as other game-related data that is stored on the database. Disclosure and lack of communication from BigMage Studios. The game boasts a 1.9+

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Often, a scammer will simply target the people in a company and fool them into giving up their personal details, account passwords, and other sensitive information and gain access that way. However, the technological side of cybersecurity is no longer the weakest link in a company’s proverbial chain.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2020

This directory contains the crypto mining module named kswapd0. This component has two main functions: Install a cryptoMiner worker: The main purpose of this elf file is the instantiation of a crypto-mining worker. It is a fork of XMRIG project, one of the most popular software to mine monero crypto values.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 21, 2020

“Using vished credentials, cybercriminals mined the victim company databases for their customers’ personal information to leverage in other attacks. The monetizing method varied depending on the company but was highly aggressive with a tight timeline between the initial breach and the disruptive cashout scheme.”

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Security Affairs

JULY 22, 2020

Prometei is a crypto-mining botnet that recently appeared in the threat landscape, it exploits the Microsoft Windows SMB protocol for lateral movements. Security experts from Cisco Talos discovered a new crypto-mining botnet, tracked as Prometei, that exploits the Microsoft Windows SMB protocol for lateral movements.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 30, 2019

The four key methods of an ethical hacker include: Monitoring: They’ll monitor a company to understand the data it creates and stores and where any sensitive data is — the gold mine hackers are after. they’ll go through physical and digital bins for charts, passwords and any sensitive data they could use to launch an attack).

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 14, 2018

About six months ago, I got an email from a good friend of mine, who I’ll call Alex (not his real name). As attackers mine information about user appearance, likely passwords, and basic behaviors, more sophisticated behavioral analysis can help us determine whether a person, device, or system is what they claim to be.

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Cyber Info Veritas

AUGUST 9, 2018

These Trojans have the ability to steal your web browser history and inputs even as they use your computing power to mine cryptocurrencies—this type of Trojans are very recent and run covertly in the background; the only thing you will note is your computer lagging. What does a master password do?

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

So what if you accidentally forget the password? We’ve all been there-- locked out of some account because we can’t remember the clever password we used. Nor am I going to wade into the debate about the ecological consequences of mining cryptocurrencies. That means it falls to you to protect your cryptocurrency.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

You just knew 2022 was going to be The Year of Crypto Grift when two of the world’s most popular antivirus makers — Norton and Avira — kicked things off by installing cryptocurrency mining programs on customer computers. ” SEPTEMBER.

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Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

" because I had no expectation at all of any of that data being publicly available (note: phone number is optional, I chose to add mine). That's not unprecedented, but this is: password: "$2y$10$B0EhY/bQsa5zUYXQ6J.NkunGvUfYeVOH8JM1nZwHyLPBagbVzpEM2", No way! Is that genuinely a bcrypt hash of my own password?

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IBM Big Data Hub

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Private keys might be shared either through a previously established secure communication channel like a private courier or secured line or, more practically, a secure key exchange method like the Diffie-Hellman key agreement. Consider the security vulnerability of a database of stored bank account passwords.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

I can't blame this on the teddy bears themselves, rather the fact that the MongoDB holding all the collected data was left publicly facing without a password. Yeah, me either, because most of mine are probably like yours: the simplest electrical devices in the house. 24 subnet.

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IBM Big Data Hub

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Private keys might be shared either through a previously established secure communication channel like a private courier or secured line or, more practically, a secure key exchange method like the Diffie-Hellman key agreement. Consider the security vulnerability of a database of stored bank account passwords.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 25, 2023

Communication is critical, with response teams keeping everyone informed, including management, IT staff, victims, law enforcement agencies, and other stakeholders. Password attacks: These involve various methods to obtain or crack passwords, including brute force attacks, dictionary attacks, or credential stuffing.

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KnowBe4

JULY 5, 2023

Use PasswordIQ to find which users are sharing passwords and which ones have weak passwords See the fully automated user provisioning and onboarding Find out how 60,000+ organizations have mobilized their end-users as their human firewall. It is safer to end such communication and contact your financial institution right away. "Do

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 16, 2024

Hijacked compute: Repurposes expensive AI compute power for attackers’ needs, primarily cryptojacking, which mines for cryptocurrencies on stolen resources. Stolen credentials: Expose other resources to compromise through exposed passwords for OpenAI, Slack, Stripe, internal databases, AI databases, and more.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 4, 2017

In this case, that secret is her password and, well, just read it: My staff log onto my computer on my desk with my login everyday. To be fair to Nadine, she's certainly not the only one handing her password out to other people. In fact I often forget my password and have to ask my staff what it is. No one else has access.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 20, 2017

It was being sold for 5 Bitcoins: That's over US$80k in today's money but back then, it was only a couple of grand (which actually, seems like pretty good value for 167 million accounts and passwords stored as unsalted SHA1 hashes). You can see why the seller put the data on the market - there was a clear financial upside.

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eDiscovery Daily

JANUARY 7, 2020

Yesterday, we looked back at cases related to passwords and Fifth Amendment protection, non-party discovery and mobile and messaging. As we noted yesterday , eDiscovery Daily published 66 posts related to eDiscovery case decisions and activities over the past year, covering 56 unique cases !

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 22, 2024

The problem: The command line interface (CLI) for AWS and Google Cloud can allow attackers with CLI access to obtain passwords, user names, and other secrets used to access cloud repositories. However, most attackers observed exploiting the vulnerability hijacked the workload to mine for cryptocurrency.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 20, 2020

Twitter was caught storing plaintext passwords in logfiles two years ago. I’d rather see them temporarily limit communication than see a flood of potentially very dangerous spoofed tweets. A major portion of password attacks over the last few years have involved attacks against APIs. Karthik Krishnan, CEO, Concentric.ai

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Krebs on Security

JULY 22, 2020

“can u edit that comment out, @tankska is a gaming twitter of mine and i dont want it to be on ogu :D’,” lol wrote. “just dont want my irl getting sus[pended].” “Put me down for 100, but don’t note my name in the thread please,” lol wrote. “They can come arrest me.

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Troy Hunt

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

The last bit is particularly important as I logon and would firstly, like my password not to be eavesdropped on and secondly, would also like to keep my financial information on the website secure. But as Scott said earlier on, having privacy on your traffic doesn't mean you're communicating with someone you actually want to.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 4, 2023

They do like crypto mining and containers and stuff. So seems relatively benign, but one thing a lot of people don't realize is that they have a detection for crypto mining and they'll just destroy the system. And so, you know, whether it be to gather intelligence, disrupt or degrade infrastructure and communications, etc.

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ChiefTech

JULY 10, 2008

Mine was: Boffo. To establish communication between the user and the form, provide clear, easy-to-read feedback so that the user doesn’t get the “select a username or die&# travesty that we see in registration forms all over the web. bof·fo (bf) slang , adj.: Extremely successful; great.).

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