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Will cryptocurrency mining soon saturate AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud?

The Last Watchdog

On the face, the damage caused by cryptojacking may appear to be mostly limited to consumers and website publishers who are getting their computing resources diverted to mining fresh units of Monero, Ethereum and Bytecoin on behalf of leeching attackers. You can mine them, if you have a powerful CPU. Bilogorskiy.

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Cyber Security’s Impact on Climate Change: What Can Organisations Do?

IT Governance

Then there’s blockchain mining. In the early days of bitcoin mining, individuals could create new bitcoins using a standard computer set-up, but the process has grown so complex that it now requires a room full of specialised tools. Many people argue that the environmental cost of this is a necessary evil.

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How to unlock a scientific approach to change management with powerful data insights

IBM Big Data Hub

Grasping these opportunities at IBM, we’re increasingly building our specialism in process mining and data analysis tools and techniques we believe to be true ‘game changers’ when it comes to building cultures of continuous change and innovation.

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

The Last Watchdog

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. For structured data, users can run simple analysis tools, i.e., content searches, to find what they need.

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Threat Group TeamTNT Returns with New Cloud Attacks

eSecurity Planet

After many successful campaigns in 2020-2021, they posted a retirement notice on Twitter, but, according to Aqua Nautilus, “their infrastructure continued to automatically infect new victims with old malware as their tools included various worms that could scan and infect new targets.”. Many anti-malware solutions can block cryptominers.

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New Linux Malware Shikitega Can Take Full Control of Devices

eSecurity Planet

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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Catches of the Month: Phishing Scams for September 2023

IT Governance

According to Microsoft, Storm-0324’s latest campaign has likely used a tool called TeamsPhisher, which “enables Teams tenant users to attach files to messages sent to external tenants, which can be abused […] to deliver phishing attachments”. This vulnerability was identified by Max Corbridge and Tom Ellson of JUMPSEC in June.

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