KnowBe4

JUNE 29, 2023

New analysis shows sources of cryptocurrency being placed into mining pools with huge deposits that make it easier for cybercriminals to make their ransom funds untraceable.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 15, 2023

CrowdStrike researchers discovered the first-ever cryptocurrency mining campaign aimed at Dero mining since February 2023. The mining efforts by the pods are contributed back to a community pool, which distributes the reward (i.e., Dero coin) equally among its contributors through their digital wallet.”

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IBM Big Data Hub

AUGUST 28, 2023

One of the best ways to take advantage of social media data is to implement text-mining programs that streamline the process. What is text mining? When used strategically, text-mining tools can transform raw data into real business intelligence , giving companies a competitive edge. How does text mining work?

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Data Breach Today

JANUARY 4, 2024

Also: Crypto Hack Losses in 2023 Decreased by Over 50% This week, Orbit Chain lost $81 million in a New Year's Eve hack, Indonesian police shuttered bitcoin mining operations, dYdX named its attacker, $324,000 users fell victim to 2023 crypto phishing scams, Singapore's prime minister had a deepfake problem, and 2023 crypto losses decreased by over (..)

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Security Affairs

MARCH 8, 2021

Experts warn of ongoing attacks targeting QNAP network-attached storage (NAS) devices to abuse them in cryptocurrency mining. The mining program is composed of unity_install.sh The malware was designed to abuse NAS resources and mine cryptocurrency. ” reads the analysis published by 360 Netlab. and Quick.tar.gz.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 20, 2018

On the face, the damage caused by cryptojacking may appear to be mostly limited to consumers and website publishers who are getting their computing resources diverted to mining fresh units of Monero, Ethereum and Bytecoin on behalf of leeching attackers. You can mine them, if you have a powerful CPU. It was mostly a consumer attack.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2022

Many readers were surprised to learn recently that the popular Norton 360 antivirus suite now ships with a program which lets customers make money mining virtual currency. For example, it doesn’t specify how much NortonLifeLock gets out of the deal (NortonLifeLock keeps 15 percent of any cryptocurrency mined by Norton Crypto).

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 5, 2021

The Uptycs Threat Research Team recently observed Golang-based worm dropping cryptominer binaries which use the MSR (Model Specific Register) driver to disable hardware prefetchers and increase the speed of the mining process by 15%. This is done to boost the miner execution performance, thereby increasing the speed of the mining process.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 3, 2018

Illicit crypto mining is advancing apace. It began when threat actors began stealthily embedding crypto mining functionality into the web browsers of unwitting individuals. Related article: Illicit crypto mining hits cloud services. It was easy to see this coming. Cryptojacking was born.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 23, 2018

After gaining control of the coin-mining software, the malware replaces the wallet address the computer owner uses to collect newly minted currency with an address controlled by the attacker. So far it hasn't been very profitable, but it -- or some later version -- eventually will be.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 6, 2022

Norton 360 , one of the most popular antivirus products on the market today, has installed a cryptocurrency mining program on its customers’ computers. According to the FAQ posted on its site , “ Norton Crypto ” will mine Ethereum (ETH) cryptocurrency while the customer’s computer is idle.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2018

Additionally, the campaign is sophisticated in seeking to detect, analyse and neutralise other competing crypto-mining malware. Additionally, the campaign is sophisticated in seeking to detect, analyse and neutralise other competing crypto-mining malware. Firstly nearly all attacks observed were Crypto-mining attackers.

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Security Affairs

MAY 10, 2020

Crooks exploit CVE-2019-18935 deserialization vulnerability to achieve remote code execution in Blue Mockingbird Monero-Mining campaign. “Blue Mockingbird is the name we’ve given to a cluster of similar activity we’ve observed involving Monero cryptocurrency-mining payloads in dynamic-link library (DLL) form on Windows systems.”

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DXC Technology

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Through process mining and visualization, organizations can identify things such as key bottlenecks and look for ways to deal with those troubling pinch points. The post Process mining and visualization steer digital transformation appeared first on DXC Blogs. When large amounts of business data […].

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Data Breach Today

MARCH 28, 2023

APT43 Launders Crypto Through Mining, Says Mandiant North Korean hackers are stealing cryptocurrency to fund operations under an apparent mandate from Pyongyang to be self-sufficient, threat intel firm Mandiant says.

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Adam Levin

MAY 5, 2020

Hackers successfully breached the servers of a popular blogging platform and used them to mine cryptocurrency. As of May 4, Ghost announced that it had successfully purged the cryptocurrency mining malware from its systems. As of May 4, Ghost announced that it had successfully purged the cryptocurrency mining malware from its systems.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 23, 2019

The Ukrainian Secret Service is investigating the case of employees at a nuclear power plant that connected its system online to mine cryp tocurrency. On July 10, agents of the SBU raided the nuclear power plant and discovered the equipment used by the employees to mining cryptocurrency. ” reported ZDnet. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Data Breach Today

JANUARY 22, 2021

Researchers Say It Hijacks Powerful Computer Systems to Mine Monero Zscaler's ThreatLabz research team is tracking a new botnet dubbed DreamBus that's installing the XMRig cryptominer on powerful, enterprise-class Linux and Unix systems with the goal of using their computing power to mine monero.

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Data Breach Today

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Researchers: Malware Leverages Vulnerabilities to Mine Cryptocurrency The Muhstik botnet, which has been operating for at least two years, has recently started targeting vulnerabilities in the Oracle WebLogic application server and the Drupal content management system as a way to expand its cryptocurrency mining capabilities, according to security (..)

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Upon release from prison, Skorjanc became chief technology officer for NiceHash , a cryptocurrency mining service. indictment of Philbert (PDF) is unusually sparse, but it does charge him with conspiracy, suggesting the defendant was part of a group. “We’ve identified in excess of a thousand of his victims.

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WIRED Threat Level

JANUARY 4, 2023

When police infiltrated the EncroChat phone system in 2020, they hit an intelligence gold mine. But subsequent legal challenges have spread across Europe.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

The popular in-browser cryptocurrency mining service Coinhive has announced that it will shut down on March 8, 2019. Security firms spotted several hacking campaigns aimed at compromising websites to install JavaScript-based Monero (XMR) cryptocurrency mining scripts and monetize their efforts. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 27, 2021

Cryptojacking malware allows threat actors to secretly mine for cryptocurrency abusing computational resources of the infected devices. The post Microsoft Defender uses Intel TDT technology against crypto-mining malware appeared first on Security Affairs. ” reads the announcement published by Microsoft. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Adam Levin

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

A federal appellate court ruled that mining and aggregating user data publicly posted to social media sites is allowable by law. The post Court Rules in Favor of Mining LinkedIn User Data appeared first on Adam Levin.

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IBM Big Data Hub

AUGUST 15, 2022

To help data scientists reflect and identify possible ethical concerns the standard process for data mining should include 3 additional steps: data risk assessment, model risk assessment and production monitoring. Often the bias creeps in through training data and then is amplified and embedded in the model. Data risk assessment.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 21, 2018

Interesting paper " A first look at browser-based cryptojacking ": Abstract : In this paper, we examine the recent trend towards in-browser mining of cryptocurrencies; in particular, the mining of Monero through Coinhive and similar code-bases.

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Data Breach Today

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Senators Introduce Bill to Task Treasury Department with Mining Assessment A bipartisan bill has been introduced in the U.S. Senate which, if passed, would find the Treasury Department actively monitoring cryptocurrency mining abroad, as well as its ultimate impact on U.S.

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Info Source

MAY 13, 2020

Global survey results released today found that process knowledge is the primary success factor for robotic process automation (RPA) projects, yet only 31% of US organizations are currently using process mining tools to understand their processes. Process mining . Financial planning & decision-making. Improving customer experience.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 4, 2024

The code decodes and retrieves a shell script (“unmi.sh”) from a remote server, in turn, it fetches a configuration file for the mining activity along with the CoinMiner file hosted on GitLab. This file outlines the cryptocurrency mining setting. The first stage of the malware resides in the processor.py

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Unwritten Record

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Mining has been a vital part of Alaska’s economy for hundreds of years. Often when we think of mining in Alaska, we think of gold mining and the gold rush of the late 1800s. The first commercial coal mine in Alaska was opened in 1855 by the Russian-American Company in the same location. NAID: 60006457. NAID: 60089626.

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Data Breach Today

JUNE 23, 2023

Attackers Deploy Trojanized OpenSSH Version for Device Takeover, Microsoft Says Microsoft discovered hackers targeting internet-facing Linux systems and IoT devices to steal IT resources for cryptocurrency mining operations.

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Data Breach Today

JUNE 6, 2022

The proposed acquisition will make it easier for customers to mine and cross-reference data that's stored on Forescout's platform.

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Data Breach Today

MAY 18, 2020

Likely Connected: Attacks Against Systems in US, UK, China, Germany and Beyond Cryptocurrency-mining hackers appear to be behind a recent spate of supercomputer and high-performance computing system intrusions. But it's unclear if attackers might also have had data-stealing or espionage intentions.

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Security Affairs

JULY 28, 2018

Google has updated the Play Store Developer Policy page to ban mobile mining apps that mine cryptocurrencies using the computational resources of the devices. “We don’t allow apps that mine cryptocurrency on devices,” reads the entry included in the policy. Securi ty Affairs – mining apps, Google).

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

A water utility in Europe has been infected by cryptocurrency mining software. This is a relatively new attack : hackers compromise computers and force them to mine cryptocurrency for them. It seems that this mining software is benign, and doesn't affect the performance of the hacked computer. (A

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Security Affairs

MAY 12, 2019

Two hacking groups associated with large-scale crypto mining campaigns, Pacha Group and Rocke Group , wage war to compromise as much as possible cloud-based infrastructure. org is in this blacklist and it is known that Rocke Group has used this domain for their crypto-mining operations. ” continues the report. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Data Breach Today

JUNE 4, 2018

Expert Says Virtual Currency Systems Leak Useful Data to Track Criminals Experts have long warned that bitcoin is not as private as it appears. The very design of bitcoin, as well as some other virtual currencies, can lend a surprising amount of information about the groups using it to transact.

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