Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

The malicious code uses i2p to download malicious components and send mined currency to the attacker’s wallet. The researchers noticed similarities with other examples reported by Trend Micro in February 2022. Later first generation samples changed to a user Launch Agent, which would not require the conspicuous password prompt.

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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

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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Schneier on Security

JULY 4, 2019

After I gave him the password to my iPhone, Moncivias spent three hours reviewing hundreds of photos and videos and emails and calls and texts, including encrypted messages on WhatsApp, Signal, and Telegram. Nothing on mine was spared. He asked about the identities of people who have worked with me in war zones.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Earlier this year, for example, the group was tied to a particularly aggressive malware campaign that exploited recent vulnerabilities in widely-used networking products, including flaws in Cisco and D-Link routers, as well as Citrix and Pulse VPN appliances. APT41’s activities span from the mid-2000s to the present day.

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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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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

The Mozi botnet was spotted by security experts from 360 Netlab, at the time of its discovered it was actively targeting Netgear, D-Link, and Huawei routers by probing for weak Telnet passwords to compromise them. “The discovery of Mozi_ftp, Mozi_ssh gives us clear evidence that the Mozi botnet is also trying to profit from mining.

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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. Cloud security firm Aqua Security uncovered a hacking campaign carried out during the past months, hackers are scanning the Internet for Docker servers running API ports exposed without a password.

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Security Affairs

JULY 13, 2019

“ Malware then guesses routers’ passwords , which new research from Avast shows are often weak. ” Avast researchers also observed crooks using DNS hijacking to deliver crypto mining scripts to users’ browsers. ” reads a blog post published by Avast. Most recently, Netflix became a popular domain for DNS hijackers.”

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Malwarebytes reports that, once installed, DarkGate Loader can be used for many nefarious purposes, including “remote access, cryptocurrency mining, keylogging, clipboard stealing, and information stealing”. You can help educate your staff with IT Governance’s Phishing Staff Awareness Training Programme.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 17, 2020

. “The website had claimed to provide its users a search engine to review and obtain the personal information illegally obtained in over 10,000 data breaches containing over 12 billion indexed records – including, for example, names, email addresses, usernames , phone numbers, and passwords for online accounts.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 29, 2021

Every time there is another data breach, we are asked to change our password at the breached entity. Our continued reliance on passwords for authentication has contributed to one toxic data spill or hack after another.

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Troy Hunt

MAY 27, 2021

Both these announcements are being made at a time where Pwned Passwords is seeing unprecedented growth: Getting closer and closer to the 1B requests a month mark for @haveibeenpwned 's Pwned Passwords. Speaking of natural fits, Pwned Passwords is perfect for this model and that's why we're starting here.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

In November 2022, the password manager service LastPass disclosed a breach in which hackers stole password vaults containing both encrypted and plaintext data for more than 25 million users. 15, 2022, LastPass said an investigation into the August breach determined the attacker did not access any customer data or password vaults.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 21, 2020

“Using vished credentials, cybercriminals mined the victim company databases for their customers’ personal information to leverage in other attacks. The monetizing method varied depending on the company but was highly aggressive with a tight timeline between the initial breach and the disruptive cashout scheme.”

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 1, 2018

My congressional testimony in the US was a very public example of that, less so are the dozens of conversations I've had in all sorts of settings including during conferences, workshops and over coffees and beers. For example, the UK government can query any.gov.uk This post talks about how I'm addressing that. domain on demand.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

So what if you accidentally forget the password? We’ve all been there-- locked out of some account because we can’t remember the clever password we used. Nor am I going to wade into the debate about the ecological consequences of mining cryptocurrencies. That means it falls to you to protect your cryptocurrency.

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Cyber Info Veritas

AUGUST 9, 2018

Their intent is to find technological exploits that allow them to access private and confidential data and information so that they can then use this information for personal gains—blackmailing you for money is an apt example of personal gain. What does a master password do? White hat hackers are the opposite of black hat hackers.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 14, 2018

About six months ago, I got an email from a good friend of mine, who I’ll call Alex (not his real name). Synthetic identity fraud is another example. Behavioral biometrics, for example, are gaining popularity as a form of authentication or a factor in determining whether a stronger authentication method may be needed.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

The scanner component also scans the Internet for servers that run services that have been left online exposed without a password or are using weak credentials. Hackers attempt to monetize their efforts through coin-mining activities on Windows systems or with ransomware based attacks on Linux servers running database services.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Password manager. Detection Using Machine Learning and Data Mining. Related to heuristic detection, which scans for unidentified viruses that resemble existing file structures containing malware, the latest approach in threat hunting is machine learning and data mining to enhance detection abilities. Email phishing filter.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

I have created a demo set-up to demonstrate a few of these examples. A few of the hosts are running with multiple mining containers; moreover, the containers are dynamic in nature hence the data varies a bit everytime we scan the open APIs. Password – phantompain. Pool Used – pool.aeon.hashvault.pro:3333.

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Brandeis Records Manager

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Also, as I’ve suggested , fact denial and fake news—land mines under the librarian’s definition of info literacy—should be serious concerns for the RIM and IG professional communities as well, given our core principles of integrity and transparency. Should it exclude avoiding rogue apps, weak passwords, and phishing attempts?

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Another example also from Context Security was the vulnerability in CloudPets talking (and listening ) teddy bears that amounted to no auth on the Bluetooth allowing an attacker to take control of the toy. Are these examples actually risks in IoT? Or are they just the same old risks we've always had with data stored on the internet?

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

It’s now commonplace for high-resolution video cams to feed endless streams of image data into increasingly intelligent data mining software. This includes everything from replacing logins, passwords and registration codes to responding to customer issues the moment they occur.”. Secure credentialing.

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Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

" because I had no expectation at all of any of that data being publicly available (note: phone number is optional, I chose to add mine). That's not unprecedented, but this is: password: "$2y$10$B0EhY/bQsa5zUYXQ6J.NkunGvUfYeVOH8JM1nZwHyLPBagbVzpEM2", No way! Is that genuinely a bcrypt hash of my own password?

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IBM Big Data Hub

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The practice of cryptology dates back to ancient times, with one of the earliest examples being attributed to Julius Caesar himself. For example, if the block size is eight, eight bytes of plaintext are encrypted at a time. Consider the security vulnerability of a database of stored bank account passwords.

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Troy Hunt

JUNE 30, 2022

Four and a half years ago now, I rolled out version 2 of HIBP's Pwned Passwords that implemented a really cool k-anonymity model courtesy of the brains at Cloudflare. Actually, the multiple problems, the first of which is that it's just way too fast for storing user passwords in an online system.

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IBM Big Data Hub

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The practice of cryptology dates back to ancient times, with one of the earliest examples being attributed to Julius Caesar himself. For example, if the block size is eight, eight bytes of plaintext are encrypted at a time. Consider the security vulnerability of a database of stored bank account passwords.

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Robert's Db2

JANUARY 26, 2011

A DB2 for z/OS DBA friend of mine recently asked, "How can I tell if the DB2.NET IBM facilitates this architecture with the DB2.NET NET Data Provider, which extends DB2 support for the ADO.NET interface. NET Data Provider is included with several of IBM's data server client and driver offerings (more on this momentarily).

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Troy Hunt

MAY 7, 2018

No, of course we shouldn't trust it and it's a perfect example of where a positive visual indicator is, in fact, misleading. I saw another perfect example of this just the other day, this time by way of a Spotify phish: Ouch, can think of a lot of people who would fall for this. It has a padlock! The Value of Negative Indicators.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Back in September, a number of people pointed me at Experian's "FREE Dark Web Email Scan" (capitalisation is theirs, not mine) because on the surface of it, it seemed similar to my Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) service. Report URI needs a password as well because you need to be able to login.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 16, 2024

Hijacked compute: Repurposes expensive AI compute power for attackers’ needs, primarily cryptojacking, which mines for cryptocurrencies on stolen resources. Stolen credentials: Expose other resources to compromise through exposed passwords for OpenAI, Slack, Stripe, internal databases, AI databases, and more.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 4, 2023

So you've got auto scaling groups, or like virtual machines and kind of easy to use this as an example, your containerization as well instead of list environments, where again, you're only kind of using the resources you need. So you might see there is a suspicious login as an example. This is great. This is how you should use it.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 9, 2021

A classic example of this type of intrusion is the Capital One data breach. The 33-year-old Amazon Web Services (AWS) software engineer was also accused of stealing cloud computer power on Capital One’s account to “mine” cryptocurrency for her own benefit, a practice known as “cryptojacking.”.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 4, 2017

In this case, that secret is her password and, well, just read it: My staff log onto my computer on my desk with my login everyday. To be fair to Nadine, she's certainly not the only one handing her password out to other people. In fact I often forget my password and have to ask my staff what it is. No one else has access.

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ChiefTech

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

I then realized that I would like to broaden the focus because my findings are also applicable to a general domain like email account registrations, for example. In this article, I would like to take a simple example of how users register for an email account online. I say, “No.” Users often hate to register.

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