Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2020

Experts observed an ongoing coin miner campaign that injects a malicious VBScript into ZIP files posing as movie downloads. The campaign primarily targets users in Spain and South American countries, aims to launch a coin-mining shellcode directly in memory. ” reads the Tweet published by the Microsoft Security Intelligence team.

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Security Affairs

JULY 23, 2019

In the past months we published a white paper exploring the risks that users can encounter when downloading materials from P2P sharing network, such as the Torrent one. As anticipated, the file downloaded from the BitTorrent network is an executable. A quick recon revealed it actually is an SFX archive containing several other files.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 16, 2019

One of my contacts pointed me to a popular hacking forum where the data was being socialised, complete with the following image: As you can see at the top left of the image, the root folder is called "Collection #1" hence the name I've given this breach. Collection #1 is a set of email addresses and passwords totalling 2,692,818,238 rows.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 3, 2021

I want to go back through that thread here, explain the thinking further and then provide some commentary on the actual data that was exposed. More specifically, I care about the data that's been exposed in the breach, especially when that data may include my own (I'm very serious). Gab's approach. This is normal.

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