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Leveraging user-generated social media content with text-mining examples

IBM Big Data Hub

One of the best ways to take advantage of social media data is to implement text-mining programs that streamline the process. What is text mining? When used strategically, text-mining tools can transform raw data into real business intelligence , giving companies a competitive edge. How does text mining work?

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Ngrok Mining Botnet

Security Affairs

Additionally, the campaign is sophisticated in seeking to detect, analyse and neutralise other competing crypto-mining malware. I’ve been following the Monero mining pool address used in the Ngrok campaign and regularly checking for other research references on the internet. Introduction. Summary of observed attacks.

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‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ used to spread a cryptominer

Security Affairs

The malware is not present in Virus Total at this time, it is written in.net and its code is not signed. 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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Chinese Antivirus Firm Was Part of APT41 ‘Supply Chain’ Attack

Krebs on Security

Charging documents say the seven men are part of a hacking group known variously as “ APT41 ,” “ Barium ,” “ Winnti ,” “ Wicked Panda ,” and “ Wicked Spider.” APT41’s activities span from the mid-2000s to the present day. Image: FBI.

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LemonDuck Shows Malware Can Evolve, Putting Linux and Microsoft at Risk

eSecurity Planet

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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Identity Thieves Bypassed Experian Security to View Credit Reports

Krebs on Security

Normally at this point, Experian’s website would present four or five multiple-guess questions, such as “Which of the following addresses have you lived at?” 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.

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Catches of the Month: Phishing Scams for September 2023

IT Governance

The ZIP file, titled “Changes to the vacation schedule”, contains a malicious link masquerading as a PDF document hosted on a SharePoint site. According to Fortinet, the document is sent as an attachment, which is presented as “a deliberately blurred image and a counterfeit reCAPTCHA”.

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