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Microsoft warns of more disruptive BlueKeep attacks and urges patch installation

Security Affairs

The popular expert Kevin Beaumont observed some of its EternalPot RDP honeypots crashing after being attacked. huh, the EternalPot RDP honeypots have all started BSOD'ing recently. Due to only smaller size kernel dumps being enabled, it is difficult to arrive at a definite root cause.” They only expose port 3389.

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Outlaw is Back, a New Crypto-Botnet Targets European Organizations

Security Affairs

This directory contains the crypto mining module named kswapd0. This component has two main functions: Install a cryptoMiner worker: The main purpose of this elf file is the instantiation of a crypto-mining worker. It is a fork of XMRIG project, one of the most popular software to mine monero crypto values.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Incident Response in the Cloud

ForAllSecure

There's definitely some tricky things in the cloud. And so you know, this is definitely one of those challenges people are facing and you know, one of the groups that we track at the moment for hacking group, they compromise. They do like crypto mining and containers and stuff. CAMPBELL: The cloud is a real enabler.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Real World Criminals Online

ForAllSecure

Mine was 2000. But it definitely was a different time. All those exercises, the honeypot or honeynet challenges I think that's what they were called in. It's a personal dynamic, you know, it's, and that's what the old 2600 used to be like the you know VAMOSI: Again, Daniel is bona fide old school hacker. I think those are cool.

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