Data Breach Today

JANUARY 21, 2023

Crypto Mining Campaign Targets Public Cloud Environments, Increases Security Risks Cybersecurity researchers say a Chinese for-profit threat group tracked as 8220 Gang is targeting cloud providers and poorly secured applications with a custom-built crypto miner and IRC bot.

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Adam Levin

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

A federal appellate court ruled that mining and aggregating user data publicly posted to social media sites is allowable by law. The post Court Rules in Favor of Mining LinkedIn User Data appeared first on Adam Levin.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

This month, they're featuring as many as nineteen cybersecurity books for as little as $1, including four of mine. For years, Humble Bundle has been selling great books at a "pay what you can afford" model. These are digital copies, all DRM-free. Part of the money goes to support the EFF or Let's Encrypt.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 8, 2024

I recently attended an IoActive-sponsored event in Seattle at which Pegueros gave a presentation titled: “Merging Cybersecurity, the Board & Executive Team” Pegueros shed light on the land mines that enshroud cybersecurity presentations made at the board level.

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Adapture

MAY 29, 2020

The biggest issue with cybersecurity is budget. This is an old way of looking at business, and it leads to what a friend of mine coined “technology debt.” Technology debt can affect much more than application performance or your [ ] The post The Biggest Issue with Cybersecurity appeared first on ADAPTURE.

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KnowBe4

DECEMBER 13, 2020

The post 2021 Predictions Are Foolhardy – Here Are Four of Mine appeared first on MediaPRO.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 11, 2018

With a little more investigation, I found two browser extensions that were crypto mining, which fortunately uninstalled without a problem. My high schooler fessed up immediately that he installed the crypto mining extensions just to see what would happen (and to make some money). Happy Cybersecurity Awareness Month!

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 7, 2023

Typically, scammers want to get ahold of an email because it’s a gold mine of information. In that case, it would be a significant cybersecurity risk for businesses and individuals alike. It’s a serious cybersecurity concern. Clicking anything during an attack is a cybersecurity concern. Create a second email.

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Security Affairs

MAY 14, 2023

Initially, they deployed and executed a separate Monero miner alongside the usual RapperBot binary, but starting from January 2023, they included the mining capabilities in the bot. The malware decodes the mining pools and Monero wallet addresses and updates the configuration before starting the embedded miner.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 23, 2021

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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eSecurity Planet

JULY 27, 2021

The LemonDuck malware that for the past couple of years has been known for its cryptocurrency mining and botnet capabilities is evolving into a much broader threat, moving into new areas of cyber attacks, targeting both Linux and Microsoft systems and expanding its geographical reach, according to security researchers with Microsoft.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 22, 2022

The Lemon_Duck cryptomining botnet is targeting Docker servers to mine cryptocurrency on Linux systems. Crowdstrikes researchers reported that the Lemon_Duck cryptomining botnet is targeting Docker to mine cryptocurrency on Linux systems. “The “a.asp” file is the actual payload in this attack. ” concludes the report.

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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

This report looks to existing security initiatives as much as possible—both to leverage existing work and to avoid counterproductively suggesting an entirely new approach to IoT security—while recommending changes and introducing more cohesion and coordination to regulatory approaches to IoT cybersecurity.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 23, 2020

On Wednesday, regulators in New York announced that First American was the target of their first ever cybersecurity enforcement action in connection with the incident, charges that could bring steep financial penalties. had exposed approximately 885 million records related to mortgage deals going back to 2003. First American Financial Corp.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 18, 2022

MaliBot disguises itself as a cryptocurrency mining app named “Mining X” or “The CryptoApp”, experts also observed the malicious code masqueraded as “MySocialSecurity” and “Chrome” apps. ” Security Affairs is one of the finalists for the best European Cybersecurity Blogger Awards 2022 – VOTE FOR YOUR WINNERS.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

A major focus of cybersecurity as an industry is its efforts to detect, root out, and respond to potential fraudsters attempting to trick companies and people out of their money, data, or both. This made a lot of sense, especially in the earlier days of the Internet where cybersecurity measures were nowhere near as robust as they are today.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

However, basic cybersecurity tools and practices, like patching , strong passwords , and multi-factor authentication (MFA), “can prevent 80 to 90% of cyberattacks,” said Anne Neuberger, deputy national security advisor for cyber and emerging technologies, during a White House press conference in Sept. The average cost of a breach is $3.6

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 9, 2023

For example, there were four phone numbers on my Experian credit file: Only one of them was mine, and that one hasn’t been mine for ages. said he was disappointed — but not at all surprised — to hear about yet another cybersecurity lapse at Experian. ” Sen. .

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Security Affairs

MARCH 20, 2024

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added CVE-2024-27198 in its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. In other instances analyzed by Trend Micro, threat actors deployed a variant of the open-source XMRig cryptocurrency-mining malware to vulnerable TeamCity servers.

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Security Affairs

MAY 27, 2021

In April, the FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) previously warned of attacks carried out by APT groups targeting Fortinet FortiOS servers using multiple exploits. The threat actors are actively exploiting the following vulnerabilities in Fortinet FortiOS: CVE-2018-13379 ; CVE-2020-12812 ; CVE-2019-5591.

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Security Affairs

JULY 29, 2020

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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Security Affairs

JANUARY 21, 2024

million cryptojacking scheme arrested in Ukraine Cybercrime Cryptojacker arrested in Ukraine over EUR 1.8

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Security Affairs

MAY 26, 2021

The TeamTNT botnet is a crypto-mining malware operation that has been active since April 2020 and that targets Docker installs. The malware deploys the XMRig mining tool to mine Monero cryptocurrency. Executes the script to start mining for the Monero cryptocurrency. aws/credentials and ~/.aws/config Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

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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Security Affairs

APRIL 27, 2020

The VictoryGate bot propagates via infected USB devices, it was designed to mine Monero abusing resourced of compromised devices, it is also able to deliver additional payloads. The malware uses a stratum/XMRig proxy to hide the mining pool and terminates the mining process when the user opens Task Manager, to avoid to show the CPU usage.

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Security Affairs

MAY 4, 2022

The attacks were monitored by cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike, who discovered that the Docker Engine honeypots deployed between February 27 and March 1 were compromised and used in the DDoS attacks. The DDoS attacks also targeted three Lithuanian media websites. This assessment is made with high confidence based on the targeted websites.”

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 8, 2023

rail and locomotive company Wabtec hit with Lockbit ransomware Synology fixes multiple critical vulnerabilities in its routers Canadian Copper Mountain Mining Corporation (CMMC) shut down the mill after a ransomware attack BitRAT campaign relies on stolen sensitive bank data as a lure Does Volvo Cars suffer a new data breach?

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Security Affairs

JUNE 3, 2022

The bot focuses on cryptocurrency mining and cryptocurrency theft via clipboard hijacking. Security Affairs is one of the finalists for the best European Cybersecurity Blogger Awards 2022 – VOTE FOR YOUR WINNERS. million in illicit gains. Please vote for Security Affairs and Pierluigi Paganini in every category that includes them (e.g.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 15, 2022

” The botnet is engaged in cryptomining activity, the malicious code has been designed to hijack the computer’s resources to mine cryptocurrencies. Security Affairs is one of the finalists for the best European Cybersecurity Blogger Awards 2022 – VOTE FOR YOUR WINNERS.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added Looney Tunables Linux vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. Kinsing actors often exploited the PHPUnit vulnerability ( CVE-2017-9841 ) and it engaged in fully automated attacks as part of mining cryptocurrency.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 15, 2022

The crimeware allows operators to steal information from infected systems and abuse its resources to mine Monero. In many cases, this includes the RedLine Stealer and an XMRig-based cryptocurrency mining malware that is internally referred to as “ZingoMiner.””

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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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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2023

ViperSoftX uses more sophisticated encryption and anti-analysis techniques Atomic macOS Stealer is advertised on Telegram for $1,000 per month CISA warns of a critical flaw affecting Illumina medical devices OpenAI reinstates ChatGPT service in Italy after meeting Garante Privacy’s demands Cisco discloses a bug in the Prime Collaboration Deployment (..)

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 25, 2021

The resource contains information for the mining activity, the researchers identified a self-compiled version of the XMrig open-source miner containing information such as username, password, algorithm, and mining pool.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 1, 2020

Cybersecurity researchers spotted a crypto-mining botnet, tracked as Vollgar, that has been hijacking MSSQL servers since at least 2018. Researchers at Guardicore Labs discovered a crypto-mining botnet , tracked as Vollgar botnet , that is targeting MSSQL databases since 2018.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Related: ‘Cyber Pearl Harbor’ is upon us There are dozens technology giants, cybersecurity vendors, government agencies and industry consortiums that identify and blacklist IP addresses and web page URLs that are obviously being used maliciously; and hundreds more independent white hat hackers are doing much the same.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 20, 2021

Mine was learning that KrebsOnSecurity is listed as a restricted competitor by Gartner Inc. Rather, KrebsOnSecurity has sought to spread cybersecurity awareness primarily by highlighting the “who” of cybercrime — stories told from the perspectives of both attackers and victims.

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