Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2020

We saw an active coin miner campaign that inserts a malicious VBScript into ZIP files posing as movie downloads. — Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) April 28, 2020. Experts observed an ongoing coin miner campaign that injects a malicious VBScript into ZIP files posing as movie downloads. Pierluigi Paganini.

Mining 85

Mining File names Risk Cybersecurity 85

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. Code Snippet 1: Copy of the files in a subfolder. After that, it generates three different files named “001.tmp”, tmp” is created combining file “008.tmp”,

Archiving 73

Archiving Mining File names Risk 73

Troy Hunt

JANUARY 16, 2019

That link explains it in more detail but in short, it poses too big a risk for individuals, too big a risk for me personally and frankly, can't be done without taking the sorts of shortcuts that nobody should be taking with passwords in the first place! What's the Risk If My Data Is in There? Oh wow - look at this!

Data breaches 112

Data breaches Passwords Risk Personal data 112

Troy Hunt

MARCH 3, 2021

Most organisation begin with "we take the security of your data seriously", layer on lawyer speak, talk about credit cards not being exposed and then promise to provide further updates as they come to hand. In total, the file has 43,015 unique email addresses (including mine) which is a far cry less than the total row count.

Passwords 145

Passwords Data breaches Mining Risk 145