Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Security experts at Microsoft analyzed a new strain of cryptocurrency miner tracked as Dexphot that has been active since at least October 2018. The malicious code abuse of the resources of the infected machine to mine cryptocurrency , according to the experts it has already infected 80,000 computers worldwide. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Since the beginning of the year, security firms observed a new intense ransomware campaign spreading the Shade ransomware. Between January and February, a new, intense, ransomware campaign has been observed by many security firms. It contains a russian speaking JavaScript file named “«??? «??? «?????????» ??????????? ??????”,

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Security expert Marco Ramilli analyzed a new piece of malware apparently designed to target PIK-Group that implements ransomware , Trojan, and Miner capabilities. So I clicked on the link (see IOC section) and I’ve downloaded a “pik.zip” file. For example, after encryption, the file “1.jpg” 135DB21A6CE65DAEFE26.crypted000007”.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2020

This directory contains the crypto mining module named kswapd0. In this folder, the first one to be executed is the file “a”. The script looks like the following: Figure 5: Content of the “a” file. The executed crypto miner is the file named “” kswapd0 ” based on the famous XMRIG monero crypto miner.

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Security Affairs

JULY 22, 2020

Prometei is a crypto-mining botnet that recently appeared in the threat landscape, it exploits the Microsoft Windows SMB protocol for lateral movements. Security experts from Cisco Talos discovered a new crypto-mining botnet, tracked as Prometei, that exploits the Microsoft Windows SMB protocol for lateral movements.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 3, 2021

Most organisation begin with "we take the security of your data seriously", layer on lawyer speak, talk about credit cards not being exposed and then promise to provide further updates as they come to hand. In total, the file has 43,015 unique email addresses (including mine) which is a far cry less than the total row count.

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