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Pacha Group declares war to rival crypto mining hacking groups

Security Affairs

Two hacking groups associated with large-scale crypto mining campaigns, Pacha Group and Rocke Group , wage war to compromise as much as possible cloud-based infrastructure. “As an example, systemten[.]org “As an example, systemten[.]org ” continues the report. ” continues the report.

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Threat Group TeamTNT Returns with New Cloud Attacks

eSecurity Planet

Such an approach is quite popular in the malware landscape, for example, with cryptominers. The attackers hijack the idle processing power of the targeted machines to mine cryptocurrency. This example shows the attack process can be automated and replicated infinitely. format(len(targets)). print 'TOTAL PROMISING TARGETS: {0}'.format(len(promisingTargets)).

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3 new steps in the data mining process to ensure trustworthy AI

IBM Big Data Hub

To be a responsible data scientist, there’s two key considerations when building a model pipeline: Bias: a model which makes predictions for people of different group (or race, gender ethnic group etc.) For example, we still observe that men are accepted on managerial position more frequently than women. Data risk assessment.

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Ransomware, Trojan and Miner together against “PIK-Group”

Security Affairs

Security expert Marco Ramilli analyzed a new piece of malware apparently designed to target PIK-Group that implements ransomware , Trojan, and Miner capabilities. which according to google translate would be: “PIK Group of Companies order details”. For example, after encryption, the file “1.jpg” crypted000007” extension to each.

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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.” One of the alleged hackers was first profiled here in 2012 as the owner of a Chinese antivirus firm. Image: FBI.

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Android Debugging Tools Also Useful for Compromising Devices, Mining Cryptocurrency

Security Affairs

As an example, a specific Android TV device was also found to ship in this condition.” ” The binary establishes a connection to the C&C server, then scans processes running on the compromised device and attempts to kill any that are running the CoinHive script that could be mining Monero. Pierluigi Paganini.

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No, I Did Not Hack Your MS Exchange Server

Krebs on Security

The group looks for attacks on Exchange systems using a combination of active Internet scans and “honeypots” — systems left vulnerable to attack so that defenders can study what attackers are doing to the devices and how. Here are a few of the more notable examples , although all of those events are almost a decade old.

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