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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.

Mining 101
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Leopard Spots and Zebra Stripes: Big Data and Identity Management

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

For years identity management has relied on three factors for authentication: What one knows (passwords). However, when analyzed by new algorithmic data mining methods, big data can reveal patterns, trends, and associations that can, among other things, relate to human behavior and interactions. What one has (tokens).

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Top Deception Tools for 2022

eSecurity Planet

They sneak around the fringes of the enterprise, seeking a way inside, which they might accomplish by tricking a user into clicking on a malicious link, opening an infected attachment or providing credentials and passwords, or perhaps by hacking an unpatched or zero-day vulnerability. It can find signs of ransomware, even in encrypted files.

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