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Ngrok Mining Botnet

Security Affairs

Additionally, the campaign is sophisticated in seeking to detect, analyse and neutralise other competing crypto-mining malware. In my previous post I discussed the initial prototyping of a Docker Honeypot / Sandbox called Whaler. Firstly nearly all attacks observed were Crypto-mining attackers. Introduction.

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Cryptojacking campaign uses Shodan to scan for Docker hosts to hack

Security Affairs

“The script then calls a Monero coin-mining binary, darwin (detected as PUA.Linux.XMRMiner.AA), to run in the background. As with all cryptocurrency miners, it uses the resources of the host system to mine cryptocurrency (Monero in this instance) without the owner’s knowledge.” ” continues the report.

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Threat Group TeamTNT Returns with New Cloud Attacks

eSecurity Planet

However, the researchers are convinced the threat actor is back, as their honeypots identified TeamTNT signatures and tools in a series of three attacks during the first week of September. The attackers hijack the idle processing power of the targeted machines to mine cryptocurrency. Many anti-malware solutions can block cryptominers.

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Facebook, Twitter, and the Senate Hearings: It’s The Business Model, Period.

John Battelle's Searchblog

To quote Dorsey (emphasis mine): “Today we’re committing to the people and this committee to do that work and do it openly. ” That one person, of course, is Mark Zuckerberg, but what I really meant was one company – Facebook. We’re here to contribute to a healthy public square, not compete to have the only one.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Real World Criminals Online

ForAllSecure

That, of course, was not all, but it is an example of how someone -- anyone on the internet -- can take a photo or blog post or Yelp review from social media, or some other seemingly random open source item and tie it back to a crime. Mine was 2000. And there were. Daniel’s first Black HAt was in 1999. Let's analyze stuff.

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