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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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. It has been active for at least two years.”

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 31, 2021

“LD_PRELOAD forces binaries to load specific libraries before others, allowing the preloaded libraries to override any function from any library. . “LD_PRELOAD forces binaries to load specific libraries before others, allowing the preloaded libraries to override any function from any library.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

The Chaes malware was first spotted in the middle to late 2020 by Cybereason researchers, it is a multistage information stealer that focuses on Brazilian customers of MercadoLivre, the largest e-commerce company in Latin America. information stealer that exfiltrates data using the node process.” ” concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

The Akamai researchers developed a tool called Frogger that allow them to gather information on infected hosts, including their uptime, hashrate, peers, and hasrate, if a cryptominer is running. . “The new implementation uses a public SCP library written in Golang in GitHub. ” reads the report published by Akamai.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 5, 2022

Microsoft is warning of continuing attempts by nation-state actors and cybercriminals to exploit recently discovered vulnerabilities in the Apache Log4j library to deploy malware on vulnerable systems. “Exploitation attempts and testing have remained high during the last weeks of December.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

This week, we discuss the use of cryptocurrency mining software on numerous government websites, a phishing scam that robbed Bee Token investors of $1 million and cyber attacks on the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics. I mentioned cyber criminals’ increasing use of cryptocurrency mining or ‘cryptomining’ software a couple of weeks ago.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

“I suspect it’s probably a derivate of other IoT crypto mining botnets,” Cashdollar told The Register. “I suspect it’s probably a derivate of other IoT crypto mining botnets,” Cashdollar told The Register. “The malware is uploaded as gzip compressed tarball archives of binaries, scripts, and libraries.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

These files have been identified as variants of the XMRIG cryptocurrency mining software. . “CISA obtained four malicious files for analysis during an on-site incident response engagement at a Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) organization compromised by Iranian government sponsored advanced persistent threat (APT) actors.”

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Security Affairs

JUNE 5, 2019

Security experts at Trend Micro have discovered a new Monero cryptomining miner, dubbed BlackSquid, that is targeting web servers, network drives, and removable drives. “Simultaneous with its attacks, BlackSquid also downloads and executes two XMRig cryptocurrency-mining components.! ” states Trend Micro.

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The Texas Record

JUNE 28, 2021

Records management (RM) is no longer a siloed discipline; RIM practitioners need to manage records within the entire information landscape of their organizations. In a nutshell, this is information governance. However, a blank W4 form is not a record , even though it provides useful information about tax withholding in general.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 25, 2019

A backdoor mechanism found in tens of Ruby libraries. Employees abused systems at Ukrainian nuclear power plant to mine cryptocurrency. Hackers are scanning the web for vulnerable Fortinet, Pulse Secure Products installs. Malware Analysis Sandboxes could expose sensitive data of your organization.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

This week, in our last podcast of the year, we revisit some of the biggest information security stories from the past 12 months. As is now traditional, I’ve installed myself in the porter’s chair next to the fire in the library, ready to recap some of the year’s more newsworthy information security events.

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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 activity of the TeamTNT group has been detailed by security firm Trend Micro, but in August experts from Cado Security discovered that that botnet is also able to target misconfigured Kubernetes installations.

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Brandeis Records Manager

MAY 27, 2015

It begins with fact-finding: gathering information, learning the institution, meeting with stakeholders from various functions. We made early acquaintances with Legal and Information Security leaders. (The content in this blog reflects the opinions of the author, and not of Brandeis University.). Learn the Institution.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 30, 2021

Welcome to the hacker mind and original podcast from Brawl secure, it's about challenging our expectations about the people who hack for a living. If you think you already understand hacking systems, then I’ve got a story for you. During numerous Capture the Flag competitions in his day to day work now with computational biology.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 21, 2022

Kyle Hanslovan CEO of Huntress Labs joins The Hacker Mind to discuss recent LoL attacks, specifically the Microsoft Follina attack and the Kaseya ransomware attack, and how important it is for small and medium sized businesses to start using enterprise grade security, given the evolving nature of these attacks. Think of it as a Trojan horse.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Also known as an “application rootkit,” the user-mode rootkit replaces executables and system libraries and modifies the behavior of application programming interfaces (APIs). It alters the security subsystem and displays false information to administrators of the target computer. Virtual Rootkit. Memory Rootkit.

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