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XMR crypto miner switches from arm IoT devices to X86/I686 Intel servers

Security Affairs

Akamai researcher Larry Cashdollar reported that a cryptocurrency miner that previously hit only Arm-powered IoT devices it now targeting Intel systems. The researchers revealed that one of his honeypots was hit by this IoT malware that targets Intel machines running Linux. “This one seems to target enterprise systems.”

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Other 3,700 MikroTik Routers compromised in cryptoJacking campaigns

Security Affairs

Thousands of unpatched MikroTik Routers are involved in new cryptocurrency mining campaigns. Thousands of unpatched devices are mining for cryptocurrency at the moment. Now the researcher Troy Mursch noticed that the infected MikroTik routers from the latest campaign open a websockets tunnel to a web browser mining script.

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Hundreds of thousands MikroTik Routers involved in massive Coinhive cryptomining campaign

Security Affairs

Experts uncovered a massive cryptojacking campaign that is targeting MikroTik routers to inject a Coinhive cryptocurrency mining script in the web traffic. According to Trustwave the hackers were exploiting a zero-day flaw in the MikroTik routers to inject a copy of the Coinhive library in the traffic passing through the MikroTik router.

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Decipher Security Podcast With ForAllSecure CEO David Brumley

ForAllSecure

He shares a particular example: e-commerce couldn’t have happened without fundamental crypto libraries, such as TLS and SSL. Thanks to these crypto libraries, today’s online economy is the size of Spain’s GDP! David Brumley: The set of people who haven't actually been that enthusiastic so far is IoT.

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Decipher Security Podcast With ForAllSecure CEO David Brumley

ForAllSecure

He shares a particular example: e-commerce couldn’t have happened without fundamental crypto libraries, such as TLS and SSL. Thanks to these crypto libraries, today’s online economy is the size of Spain’s GDP! David Brumley: The set of people who haven't actually been that enthusiastic so far is IoT.

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DECIPHER SECURITY PODCAST WITH FORALLSECURE CEO DAVID BRUMLEY

ForAllSecure

He shares a particular example: e-commerce couldn’t have happened without fundamental crypto libraries, such as TLS and SSL. Thanks to these crypto libraries, today’s online economy is the size of Spain’s GDP! David Brumley: The set of people who haven't actually been that enthusiastic so far is IoT.

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Part 1: OMG! Not another digital transformation article! Is it about understanding the business drivers?

ARMA International

The exponential growth in content is fueled by a plethora of connected devices, colloquially called “Internet of Things (IoT),” from cell phones, mobiles, and wearable technologies, to sensors in homes, appliances, cars, and so on. Another example is real-time traffic and public transit data captured by the IoT. Data Analytics.