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

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Experts pointed out that the bot doesn’t contain any offensive features, such as the ability to launch DDoS attacks or to mine cryptocurrency, a circumstance that suggests the malware is under development. The Attack function in the code is just a reserved empty function, and has not been implemented.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 31, 2021

to mine Monero, unlike 2019 variant, it uses a Python infection script to implement “wormable” capabilities. X.X). “Cryptojacking malware targeting the cloud is evolving as attackers understand the potential of that environment to mine for crypto coins. ” continues the analysis. Pro-Ocean deploys an XMRig miner 5.11.1

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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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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 18, 2021

The new Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), Jen Easterly, opened Day 2 of Black Hat USA 2021 with a remote presentation on Hacking the Cybersecurity Puzzle. Easterly began by presenting her bio. Oue particular passion of mine," Easterly said, "is developing diverse organizations.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2023

ViperSoftX uses more sophisticated encryption and anti-analysis techniques Atomic macOS Stealer is advertised on Telegram for $1,000 per month CISA warns of a critical flaw affecting Illumina medical devices OpenAI reinstates ChatGPT service in Italy after meeting Garante Privacy’s demands Cisco discloses a bug in the Prime Collaboration Deployment (..)

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 5, 2022

“ customers should assume broad availability of exploit code and scanning capabilities to be a real and present danger to their environments. The IT giant also confirmed that Webtoos DDoS malware was also deployed via the Log4Shell vulnerability. . ” Microsoft concludes.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Xmrig is an open sourced Monero CPU Miner used to mine Monero cryptocurrency. Kinsing is a self-propagating crypto mining malware previously targeting misconfigured open Docker Daemon API ports. Coinminers. Figure 1: Shell script downloading and executing Xmrig. Figure 2: Kinsing getting downloaded via shell script.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2022

The phishing messages sent to the journalists contained a link to ZIP archives containing LNK files, both named ‘Kang Min-chol edits’ (Kang Min-chol is North Korea’s Minister of Mining Industries). “Based on the presented analysis, the GOLDBACKDOOR malware shares strong technical overlaps with the BLUELIGHT malware.

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Security Affairs

MAY 6, 2022

On executing the above shell script (hash: 05a65e666492dd8ec5ab0985e5395967bc7bed03e9aaca11cdb9351873093382), the Xmrig miner gets downloaded from github and mining gets started (see Figure 8). The main objective of kinsing is to mine cryptocurrency on the vulnerable servers. Figure 9: xmrig getting downloaded.

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Security Affairs

MAY 17, 2020

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Certain features in the latest versions of iOS and macOS require this extra level of security, which is designed to protect your information. That’s why information security awareness training for all staff is so important – especially when anyone in the organisation can cause a data breach.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

” Russia’s Roskomnadzor revealed that the proceedings protocol was signed in the presence of a representative of Twitter, while no Facebook representative was present to sign it. Administrative Code of the Russian Federation, which provides for an administrative fine in the amount of 1 million to 6 million rubles.”

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ForAllSecure

JULY 14, 2021

You see, Mills, you see cotton gins, you see mines that have shut down, you see places and every now and then there's somewhat of a success story. Daniel: Due to some labor disputes, and, you know, mining, even open pit mining, is a rough job. That doesn't always lend itself to a good presentation. If you get it.

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ARMA International

DECEMBER 23, 2019

As memorialized in the book The Right Stuff , test pilots then had to decide whether to transition into an uncertain-yet-vaguely-familiar new career or continue along their present path. The task before us now is to apply these to all of the rest of our information. Here’s how one organization pulled this off. A Real-World Example.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 21, 2021

Like other competitive GRC solutions, it speeds the process of aggregating and mining data, building reports, and managing files. IT governance and security. Then, you can download relevant data sets and export them as spreadsheets, PDFs, or presentations. Its features include: Enterprise risk management. Compliance management.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 21, 2021

Like other competitive GRC solutions, it speeds the process of aggregating and mining data, building reports, and managing files. IT governance and security. Then, you can download relevant data sets and export them as spreadsheets, PDFs, or presentations. Its features include: Enterprise risk management. Compliance management.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 23, 2021

Sophos researchers that investigated the recently uncovered crypto-mining campaign targeting SQL servers with MrbMiner malware believe that it was conducted by an Iran-based company. Experts noticed that the same username used for the GitHub account was present on the machine used to compile the miner.

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CGI

JULY 5, 2018

A new and quickly spreading phenomenon is to steal computing power to mine cryptocurrencies. Cryptocurrency mining uses a lot of computing power and electricity because the mathematical problems connected to mining are difficult to solve. If you pay for the electricity and devices you use, mining will be costly.

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ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

And the rest, they say is this as a reporter, I was in a position to learn as I wrote about information security. Vamosi: Welcome to the hacker mind that original podcast from for all secure. So if you make the cut and get invited, there's a two week presentation from the day that the scope is getting released.

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Brandeis Records Manager

MAY 27, 2015

We were proactive with offers to present on the program at any venue. We made early acquaintances with Legal and Information Security leaders. But retention policy is one area to catch up in order to keep the evolving program balanced. The Way Forward, and a Challenge to Colleagues.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 15, 2021

I’m Robert Vamosi and this episode about best practices in information security, and how critical life services, in particular, remain at risk today -- in the middle of a global pandemic. Number two is that you don't really have people that are physically present in many cases. They have to basically all connect remotely.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 15, 2021

I’m Robert Vamosi and this episode about best practices in information security, and how critical life services, in particular, remain at risk today -- in the middle of a global pandemic. Number two is that you don't really have people that are physically present in many cases. They have to basically all connect remotely.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 27, 2022

Gartner reported that 36% plan to increase spending on AI and machine learning , and 85% want to implement data-mining supported by machine learning until 2024. The digitalization of government services and processes make the growing incidence of cyber-attacks a clear and present danger for agencies.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 2, 2022

Anyone who has anyone in the information security community is usually melting under the hot Nevada sun. So in this episode, I'm going to share some of the conversations I've had with leaders of some of those more established villages over the last 50 episodes of the hacker mine. Still very informal.

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KnowBe4

JULY 5, 2023

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Security Affairs

MAY 19, 2019

Pacha Group declares war to rival crypto mining hacking groups. Reading the Yoroi Cyber Security Annual Report 2018. Past, present, and future of the Dark Web. Facebook sues data analytics firm Rankwave over alleged data misuse. Over 10k+ GPS trackers could be abused to spy on individuals in the UK.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Vamosi: Like a lot of us, information security wasn’t necessarily our first line of work. Fortunately I was covering security for ZDNet from day one, and eventually got pretty good at explaining infosec to others. I started in journalism. I don't know, 20 to 100 people depending on how big the event is like.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Vamosi: Like a lot of us, information security wasn’t necessarily our first line of work. Fortunately I was covering security for ZDNet from day one, and eventually got pretty good at explaining infosec to others. I started in journalism. I don't know, 20 to 100 people depending on how big the event is like.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Vamosi: Like a lot of us, information security wasn’t necessarily our first line of work. Fortunately I was covering security for ZDNet from day one, and eventually got pretty good at explaining infosec to others. I started in journalism. I don't know, 20 to 100 people depending on how big the event is like.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 12, 2022

Then again, you might want someone --anyone -- to come in as a Level 1 security analyst so your current Level 1s can advance. But how do you even start to identify who might be good in a role in information security? A colleague of mine used to travel around to sans training conferences across the country.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 13, 2022

It's mine. The next episode of the hacker mine is all about hacking is not a crime. I bet there are others who like commercial free narrative information security podcasts. And you might make like an extra little clock pulse in there, which basically, the processor isn't expecting to receive a change of state that quick.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 4, 2017

For context, the back story to this is that another British pollie (Damian Green) is presently in hot water for allegedly accessing porn on his gov PC and Nadine is implying it could have been someone else on his PC using his identity. — Nadine Dorries (@NadineDorries) December 2, 2017.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Recent innovations in the attack technology, like the “BlackLotus” UEFI rootkit , have ensured that rootkits are still a very present danger to modern networks and devices. In 2021, Connelly and other researchers presented a new paper outlining an approach to detecting rootkits similar to CloudSkulk. Prevention.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 2, 2023

Mine was 2000. spooks they'll have operational security issues because they've made assumptions at some point. And then there's their they didn't have any tradecraft training on social media and not just social media, but how they present themselves online. Daniel’s first Black HAt was in 1999.

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Troy Hunt

APRIL 15, 2019

I've been involved with a bunch of really poorly implemented "Internet of Things" things in the past that presented serious privacy risks to those who used them. Wearco produces "mining consumables". For example, there was VTech back in 2015 who leaked millions of kids' info after they registered with "smart" tablets.

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