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TeamTNT is back and targets servers to run Bitcoin encryption solvers

Security Affairs

In the first week of September, AquaSec researchers identified at least three different attacks targeting their honeypots, the experts associated them with the cybercrime gang TeamTNT. The TeamTNT botnet is a crypto-mining malware operation that has been active since April 2020 and targets Docker installs. Pierluigi Paganini.

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No, I Did Not Hack Your MS Exchange Server

Krebs on Security

New data suggests someone has compromised more than 21,000 Microsoft Exchange Server email systems worldwide and infected them with malware that invokes both KrebsOnSecurity and Yours Truly by name. Let’s just get this out of the way right now: It wasn’t me. krebsonsecurity[.]top top (NOT a safe domain, hence the hobbling).

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Log4j Vulnerability Aftermath

Security Affairs

Using our threat intelligence systems and honeypot, the Uptycs threat research team identified different kinds of payloads dropped on the vulnerable servers. Xmrig is an open sourced Monero CPU Miner used to mine Monero cryptocurrency. The ransomware encrypted the files with the extension ‘.locked’ Coinminers.

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Leopard Spots and Zebra Stripes: Big Data and Identity Management

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

In this age of big data, the concept is fitting, because this kind of information is increasingly being used to identify individuals and even machines. In the following, I focus on the analytics component, how it is increasingly used across enterprises, and why it is important to protect big data. Big Data Analytics.

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Top Deception Tools for 2022

eSecurity Planet

The ability to administer and distribute deceptive data, like Word documents and database tables/entries and files, in decoy host deceptions. Other decoys are located on the network layer, and a few operate within applications or within stored data to misdirect cyber criminals. Best Deception Solutions. Key Differentiators.

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