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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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Blue Mockingbird Monero-Mining campaign targets web apps

Security Affairs

Crooks exploit CVE-2019-18935 deserialization vulnerability to achieve remote code execution in Blue Mockingbird Monero-Mining campaign. “Blue Mockingbird is the name we’ve given to a cluster of similar activity we’ve observed involving Monero cryptocurrency-mining payloads in dynamic-link library (DLL) form on Windows systems.”

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Supply-chain attack on NPM Package UAParser, which has millions of daily downloads

Security Affairs

CISA warned of crypto-mining malware hidden in a popular JavaScript NPM library, named UAParser.js, which has millions of weekly downloads. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency published an advisory to warn of the discovery of a crypto-mining malware in the popular NPM Package UAParser.js.

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Iran-linked threat actors compromise US Federal Network

Security Affairs

These files have been identified as variants of the XMRIG cryptocurrency mining software. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), along with the Coast Guard Cyber Command (CGCYBER), published a joint advisory to warn of hacking attempts exploiting the Log4Shell flaw in VMware Horizon servers to compromise target networks.

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Doki, an undetectable Linux backdoor targets Docker Servers

Security Affairs

Cybersecurity researchers at Intezer spotted a new completely undetectable Linux malware , dubbed Doki , that exploits undocumented evasion techniques while targeting publicly accessible Docker servers. “ Ngrok Mining Botnet is an active campaign targeting exposed Docker servers in AWS, Azure, and other cloud platforms.

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MY TAKE: Poorly protected local government networks cast shadow on midterm elections

The Last Watchdog

The attack also brought cybersecurity to the local level. It’s easy to think of it as a problem the federal government must address or something that enterprises deal with, but cybersecurity has to be addressed closer to home, as well. This makes government networks even more vulnerable and hackers see them as a gold mine.

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Interpol: Goldfish Alpha operation reduces cryptojacking by 78%

Security Affairs

“Based on data from police and partners in the cybersecurity industry, INTERPOL identified a global cryptojacking campaign facilitated by the exploitation of a vulnerability in MikroTik routers.” ” reads the press release published by the Interpol. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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