Security Affairs

JUNE 1, 2019

“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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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Most of the unstructured data generated in the course of conducting digital commerce doesn’t get stored in a database or any other formal management system. But with no orderly internal framework, unstructured data defies data mining tools. With unstructured data, out of sight is out of mind, leaving it ill protected.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 23, 2020

“According to our sources, the incident started to spread during the course of last night. A few days before, EVRAZ , one of the world’s largest multinational vertically integrated steel making and mining companies, has been hit by the Ryuk ransomware. The Active Directory infrastructure would be affected.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

In due course, the malicious actor was able to partially compromise our infrastructure, and gain access to document storage.” ” Cyber criminals also targeted crypto-mining firm NiceHash with the same technique and successfully carried out a DNS hijacking attack.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

The infamous XMRig mines Monero cryptocurrency that is known to be anonymity-focused, as it’s particularly hard to trace back. Of course, it can be hard to keep pace with the release cycles, and updates can introduce nasty regressions and bugs. Cybercriminals Use C2 Servers to Deploy Cryptominer. Shikitega installs XMRig version 6.17.0

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 24, 2022

Most people say “what if the password manager gets hacked” while this might be a valid concern, it’s not a concern of mine. You can use the same method, of course, for the smaller parts of the password. The rest, only my password manager knows the password which I can easily look up. But I’ve never committed them to memory.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Of course, there are many more possibilities.”. For example, the Mozi_ssh is a crypto mining trojan that spreads worm-like through SSH weak password and it uses the same wallet address of nd Mozi_ftp use the same wallet.

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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”. You can help educate your staff with IT Governance’s Phishing Staff Awareness Training Programme.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 8, 2021

“During the course of this investigation, OPP investigators determined an individual was responsible for numerous ransomware attacks affecting businesses, government agencies and private individuals throughout Canada as well as cyber-related offenses in the United States,” reads an OPP statement.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 18, 2018

This, of course, is a tall task. What we’re seeing is they’re going in and taking a bank’s good application and wrapping a crypto currency mining app around it. LW: It’s the actual banking app, wrapped up with a crypto mining functionality on it? But right now, crypto mining is where the money is.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

The attackers hijack the idle processing power of the targeted machines to mine cryptocurrency. Of course, it depends on the usage, but it’s unlikely you need more than one fourth or one third of the total CPU in most cases. Such an approach is quite popular in the malware landscape, for example, with cryptominers.

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IBM Big Data Hub

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Language-training school ASTEX , based in Madrid, Spain, has seen student careers skyrocket after they completed its courses. Users can then mine the data using simple keyword searches to find the information they need.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

In due course, the malicious actor was able to partially compromise our infrastructure, and gain access to document storage.” . “This gave the actor the ability to change DNS records and in turn, take control of a number of internal email accounts. ” In the early morning hours of Nov.

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AIIM

JUNE 16, 2020

Of course, it’s not just your membership dues – it’s also your time, your energy, your feedback, and even how you respond to AIIM product and service offerings. Professional members save 10% vs. non-membership, and if all you do is buy a training course and a conference registration, you’ve saved the cost of your membership for that year.

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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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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Slightly different column count to mine (and similar but different to the hacker forum post), and slightly different email count, but the similarities remain striking. So how many "Acuity" companies are out there in total?! It's a legitimate , honest , legal business model. And the column names line up!

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IBM Big Data Hub

DECEMBER 14, 2022

It mines data, customizes interactions and is continuously learning. “ *Insert Name*, transferring you to one of our agents who can answer your question about coverage abroad.” . Of course, like Watson, leading businesses are constantly learning, analyzing, and striving to become better.

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CILIP

APRIL 5, 2023

Similarly, the European Commission’s assessment of the evidence around its future text and data mining rules noted rightholders’ claim that an exception would “facilitate the misuse and piracy of their content and make them lose business opportunities in future”.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

This makes government networks even more vulnerable and hackers see them as a gold mine. Every type of attack on a government entity will have an impact, of course, but with the midterm election looming, there is a lot of concern about whether or not local and state governments will be able to prevent election tampering.

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CILIP

MARCH 19, 2021

d borrowed from and donated to the library, and then we used large scale computing to mine that against all the books he?d t easily do that same study on Virginia Woolf (as some of her works are still under copyright in the UK, and so not available for text mining, unless we digitise them ourselves). d ever written. One of Melissa?s

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JULY 1, 2011

I considered myself one of them, of course, but I also kept a bit apart - it's one reason I live up in Marin, and not down in the Silicon Valley. But as I scanned the room last night and watched those friends of mine, I realized that each of them was now involved in an Internet startup in some way or another. Why did I do that?

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 9, 2021

The delivery of malicious code through advertising supply chains is an insidious attack spanning over the course of 15 years. Spending on Digital Display Ads Increasing.

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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). Of course, once the attacker has accomplished their goal or gotten enough money, they can abandon that identity. Lots of data, of course! First, you need sufficient and accurate data to establish the baseline.

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IBM Big Data Hub

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

It mines data, customizes interactions and is continuously learning. “ *Insert Name*, transferring you to one of our agents who can answer your question about coverage abroad.” . Of course, like Watson, leading businesses are constantly learning, analyzing, and striving to become better.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

. “Unlike the aforementioned IoT botnets, this one tries to be more stealthy and persistent once the device is compromised, and it does not (yet) do the usual stuff a botnet does like DDOS , attacking all the devices connected to the internet, or, of course, mining cryptocurrencies.”

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 28, 2019

The end game for this particular hacking ring is to install crypto currency mining routines on compromised Linux servers. Through the course of this year, Gartner forecasts that the infosec market will climb 9 percent to $124 billion. Targeting one device. percent, according to tech consultancy Gartner.

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Preservica

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

The member libraries needed a way to preserve, store, and provide access to important digital objects such as archival materials, special collections, theses and dissertations, institutional materials (such as course catalogs, images, records), and more.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

MARCH 7, 2016

See below… If your business focus is in technology or the Internet, as mine has been for nearly three decades, it’s quite possible you’ve never heard of the GLOBE Series , a global conference dedicated to sustainability in business. The post On Tech Leadership appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 4, 2023

The most blunt solution is to ban cryptocurrency mining altogether. China did this in 2018 , but it only made the problem worse; mining moved to other countries with even less efficient energy generation, and emissions went up. Of course, some people will try to evade the tax, just as people evade every other tax.

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eDiscovery Daily

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

Craig Ball once made a great point in responding to a post of mine about educating lawyers when he said “ We not only need to persuade lawyers to take the plunge, we need to insure there’s a pool for them to jump into. Do they go to a community night course on computers?

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eDiscovery Daily

MARCH 25, 2020

One week from today, on Thursday, April 2 at noon CST (1:00pm EST, 10:00am PST), ACEDS will host the webinar Mining for Valuable Data – Collection Fundamentals. That’s nearly 2 hours of new CLE courses in less than a week! As a result, here’s a CLE event that you can “attend”, even if you’re nowhere near Houston.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JANUARY 25, 2019

Big data, data breaches, data mining, data science…Today, we’re all about the data. Our current political and economic culture is, of course, a direct descendant of this living document. Of course, we actively ignore them – who on earth would ever read them? Technologically, the answer is “of course.”

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Information Management Resources

DECEMBER 26, 2017

have been making their rounds these past few months, mine included (authoring tools), but what about the worst? Anyone could have created and in fact did create micro-learning online courses since online learning started in the mid to late 90’s, even in the corporate market. Besides the industry of course. Bottom Line.

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CGI

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Imagine a situation where a third party gets hold of your metering data and, using data mining algorithms, and can detect your presence or absence and other household activities. Of course, you can also contact me if you are interested in knowing more about the potential business case for Obfuscate(.) Wouldn’t that be devastating?

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Energy and Utilities Privacy Mining Analytics 40

John Battelle's Searchblog

MAY 23, 2012

Of course, our cels don’t work very well in the hills of Marin County, California, which creates a rather asynchronous sense of community, but more on that in a bit. That one phone number – I can still remember mine from my earliest days growing up – was a shared identity for our family.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JULY 13, 2011

Mine looks like this: As you can see, this is a flow of posts from folks that I follow, with added features and information on the right rail. However, there are important differences, and of course, Google has a massive advantage: Google+ is integrated into everything the company owns and operates.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 12, 2023

Some of the best advice I had from a college professor of mine is for your first six months in a role, keep your mouth shut for the most part—it's not never speak—but his point was to listen. As much free time as I can find, I'm usually on the golf course. Do your job. Be observant to everything that's going on.

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