Krebs on Security

MARCH 28, 2021

I first heard about the domain in December 2020, when a reader told me how his entire network had been hijacked by a cryptocurrency mining botnet that called home to it. Here are a few of the more notable examples , although all of those events are almost a decade old. That same list today would be pages long.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 30, 2020

In 2018, KrebsOnSecurity unmasked the creators of Coinhive — a now-defunct cryptocurrency mining service that was being massively abused by cybercriminals — as the administrators of a popular German language image-hosting forum. ”

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IBM Big Data Hub

MAY 17, 2023

For example, if a user’s email is down, they submit a ticket to IT. Auto-discovery tools like process mining — a tool gaining popularity with organizations — does just that. Continuous process optimization and technological breakthroughs in process mining are now competitive differentiators.

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Security Affairs

JULY 24, 2018

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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The Last Watchdog

JULY 13, 2018

However, these fraudsters don’t really care about snatching up your credentials or mine. By now, your personal information and mine has been hacked multiple times and is readily on sale in the Dark Web. The most recent example comes from Timehop, a service that enables social media users to plug into their past.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 15, 2021

The biggest potential gold mine for de-anonymizing Maza members is the leak of user numbers for ICQ, an instant messaging service formerly owned by AOL that was widely used by cybercrime forum members up until around 2010. And the profile link on the auto forum leads to another now-defunct but still-archived personal site for Sergey.

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IBM Big Data Hub

APRIL 4, 2024

For example, BPM is smaller in scale than business process reengineering (BPR), which radically overhauls or replaces processes. A purchasing agreement between a client and vendor, for example, needs to evolve and go through different rounds of approval and be organized, accessible and compliant with regulations.

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CGI

JANUARY 10, 2018

Envisioning new and hidden realities with data and augmented reality—a digital “twin city” example. For example, a supermarket that makes home grocery deliveries has empty vehicles returning from those deliveries. Take a modern film, for example. Wed, 01/10/2018 - 15:25. Using data to create new value chains.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

“After I posted about the site, a buddy of mine indicated [the same thing] happened to her when her friend passed away two weeks ago,” George said. For example, there is watchliveon24[.]com.playehq4ks[.]com com.playehq4ks[.]com com , which displays links to multiple funeral service streaming groups on Facebook.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 30, 2021

The expert determined the number of cryptocurrencies that were mined to a mining pool account by inspecting the mining pool. Half of the images discovered by the expert were using a shared mining pool, by he estimated that threat actors mined US$200,000 worth of cryptocurrencies in a two-year period.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 9, 2023

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. The report contains so many errors that it’s probably going to take a good deal of effort on my part to straighten out.

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Security Affairs

JULY 29, 2020

The ongoing Ngrok mining botnet campaign is targeting servers are hosted on popular cloud platforms, including Alibaba Cloud, Azure, and AWS. “ Ngrok Mining Botnet is an active campaign targeting exposed Docker servers in AWS, Azure, and other cloud platforms. .” An example domain would be: 6d77335c4f23[.]ddns[.]net

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Thousands of unpatched MikroTik Routers are involved in new cryptocurrency mining campaigns. Thousands of unpatched devices are mining for cryptocurrency at the moment. Now the researcher Troy Mursch noticed that the infected MikroTik routers from the latest campaign open a websockets tunnel to a web browser mining script.

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Info Source

MAY 13, 2020

Global survey results released today found that process knowledge is the primary success factor for robotic process automation (RPA) projects, yet only 31% of US organizations are currently using process mining tools to understand their processes. Process mining . Financial planning & decision-making. Improving customer experience.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

“In some cases, it is possible to exchange your 0day with my existing 0day, or sell mine,” his Russian-language profile reads. “In some cases, it is possible to exchange your 0day with my existing 0day, or sell mine,” his Russian-language profile reads. PARTIAL PATCH.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 1, 2020

Cybersecurity researchers spotted a crypto-mining botnet, tracked as Vollgar, that has been hijacking MSSQL servers since at least 2018. Researchers at Guardicore Labs discovered a crypto-mining botnet , tracked as Vollgar botnet , that is targeting MSSQL databases since 2018. and Windows Script Host Object Model (wshom).

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 13, 2021

For example, the AWS CLI uses environment variables and configuration files that can be exfiltrated by exploiting CVE-2021-22448. ” Talos researchers also updated the list of IOCs to include information about mining activity carried out by exploiting the CVE-2021-44228 flaw. .”

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Security Affairs

JUNE 1, 2019

“The script then calls a Monero coin-mining binary, darwin (detected as PUA.Linux.XMRMiner.AA), to run in the background. As with all cryptocurrency miners, it uses the resources of the host system to mine cryptocurrency (Monero in this instance) without the owner’s knowledge.” ” continues the report.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 7, 2023

Typically, scammers want to get ahold of an email because it’s a gold mine of information. For example, attackers may hope people won’t notice purchase confirmations or password change requests when intermingled with an enormous amount of spam. For example, people could use one to sign up for things and another for sensitive records.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2020

Experts uncovered a hacking campaign that is breaching Docker clusters to deploy a new crypto-mining malware tracked as Kinsing. ” The Kinsing malware abuses the resources of the Docker installations to mine cryptocurrency, hackers exploit unprotected open Docker API port to instantiate an Ubuntu container. “The spre.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 1, 2019

More recently, Škorjanc served as chief technology officer at NiceHash , a Slovenian company that lets users sell their computing power to help others mine virtual currencies like bitcoin. In December 2017, approximately USD $52 million worth of bitcoin mysteriously disappeared from the coffers of NiceHash.

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Daymark

APRIL 6, 2021

For example, if a password I use frequently (maybe even a strong one) is exposed in a breach of an e-commerce company. The malicious actor located in Moscow who obtains this userID (likely an email of mine) and password then does a quick lookup on LinkedIn and finds that I work at Daymark.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

For example, another important default setting in LastPass is the number of “iterations,” or how many times your master password is run through the company’s encryption routines.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Poor configuration of cloud services can translate into gaping vulnerabilities—and low hanging fruit for hackers, the recent Tesla hack being a prime example. In that caper, a core API was left open allowing them to exploit it and begin using Tesla’s servers to mine cryptocurrency.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 8, 2019

Avast spotted a new strain of Clipsa malware that is used to mine and steal cryptocurrencies along with carrying out brute-force attacks on WordPress sites. Clipsa is a malware that is well known to cyber security community is able to steal cryptocurrency via clipoard hijacking and mine cryptocurrency after installing a miner. .

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Security Affairs

JUNE 7, 2021

Experts discovered an announcement made on April 20, 2021 by the administrators of a hacking forum that inviting participants into proposing new techniques to steal private keys and wallets, devise unusual cryptocurrency mining software, compromise smart contracts and non-fungible tokens (NFTs). ” concludes the post.

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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The report recommends that regulators should 1) enforce minimum security standards for manufacturers of IoT devices, 2) incentivize higher levels of security through public contracting, and 3) try to align IoT standards internationally (for example, international guidance on handling connected devices that stop receiving security updates).

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IBM Big Data Hub

AUGUST 15, 2022

To help data scientists reflect and identify possible ethical concerns the standard process for data mining should include 3 additional steps: data risk assessment, model risk assessment and production monitoring. For example, we still observe that men are accepted on managerial position more frequently than women.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

The TeamTNT botnet is a crypto-mining malware operation that has been active since April 2020 and that targets Docker installs. The malware deploys the XMRig mining tool to mine Monero cryptocurrency. Upon infecting Docker and Kubernetes systems running on top of AWS servers, the bot scans for ~/.aws/credentials

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OpenText Information Management

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

The energy and resources sector including utilities, oil and gas, chemicals, and metals & mining is one of the most hazardous in the world. For example, 2023 had one of the lowest property damage losses for the hydrocarbon industry. Examples might include “has a service order been placed for our next fire safety inspection?”

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Security Affairs

JULY 25, 2021

An example of an attack found in the wild, launching a popular cryptocurrency miner container” A Workflow is the core resource in Argo and is defined using a YAML file containing a “spec” for the type of work to be performed. ” states the analysis published by Intezer.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 8, 2024

I recently attended an IoActive-sponsored event in Seattle at which Pegueros gave a presentation titled: “Merging Cybersecurity, the Board & Executive Team” Pegueros shed light on the land mines that enshroud cybersecurity presentations made at the board level. Compliance brings visibility to a topic.

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IT Governance

MARCH 29, 2022

Perhaps the most significant example of this is the Cloud. Then there’s blockchain mining. In the early days of bitcoin mining, individuals could create new bitcoins using a standard computer set-up, but the process has grown so complex that it now requires a room full of specialised tools. public Clouds and 2.7 private ones.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

For example, after encryption, the file “1.jpg” jpg” might have an appearance similar to this example: “hmv8IGQE5oYCLEd2IS3wZQ==.135DB21A6CE65DAEFE26.crypted000007”. Nheqminer is a great implementation of equihash mining, mainly used on NiceHas but forked many times and todays is getting used for several spare projects as well.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The malware was employed in cryptocurrency mining campaigns and to launch denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. When analyzing the cryptomining activity, the experts noticed that operators used crypto wallets allegedly chosen randomly to contribute to various mining pools. .

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The botnet was involved in stealing users’ credentials and data, mining cryptocurrencies abusing victims’ resources, and setting up proxies to funnel other people’s internet traffic through infected machines and routers. For example, the site dont.farm was used to sell access to compromised Google and Facebook advertising account.

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AIIM

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

For example, organizational restructuring such as mergers and acquisitions can result in staff needing to access multiple, similar systems to respond to a single customer request. Importantly, data stored in the ECM system also provides a useful source of historical information that can be mined for business insights using analytics engines.

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