Security Affairs

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Microsoft warns that threat actors are using OAuth applications cryptocurrency mining campaigns and phishing attacks. Threat actors are using OAuth applications such as an automation tool in cryptocurrency mining campaigns and other financially motivated attacks. ” states Microsoft.

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Security Affairs

JULY 12, 2022

Researchers investigated cloud-based cryptocurrency mining attacks targeting GitHub Actions and Azure VMs. Researchers from Trend Micro published a report that details cloud-based cryptocurrency mining attacks targeting GitHub Actions and Azure VMs and the threat actors behind them. ” states the report published by Trend Micro.

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Data Breach Today

JUNE 5, 2024

News Comes on Heels of Treasury Forcing Chinese Investors to Divest BianLian Shares Australian mining giant Northern Minerals says cybercriminals stole sensitive corporate secrets from its systems not long after the government forced several Chinese investors to divest their shares in the company.

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WIRED Threat Level

MARCH 28, 2023

A spy group working for the Kim regime has been feeding stolen coins into crypto mining services in an effort to throw tracers off their trail.

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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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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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Security Affairs

JANUARY 3, 2023

The Canadian Copper Mountain Mining Corporation (CMMC) was hit with a ransomware attack that impacted its operations. The Canadian Copper Mountain Mining Corporation (CMMC) announced to have suffered a ransomware attack late on December 27, 2022, which impacted its operation. . It is still unclear if there was a data breach.

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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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Security Affairs

APRIL 16, 2025

Due to the complexity of the files, the Company engaged cybersecurity data mining experts to evaluate the exfiltrated data and was recently informed of its nature, scope and validity, confirming that the data sets contained a significant number of individuals personal information associated with our clients’ end-users.”

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2023

Experts warn of a large-scale cryptocurrency mining campaign exploiting Kubernetes (K8s) Role-Based Access Control ( RBAC ). Cloud security firm Aqua discovered a large-scale cryptocurrency mining campaign exploiting Kubernetes (K8s) Role-Based Access Control ( RBAC ) to create backdoors and run miners. ” concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

The TeamTNT botnet is a crypto-mining malware operation that has been active since April 2020 and that targets Docker installs. Experts pointed out that even if the group is expanding its arsenal adding new capabilities, it still focuses on cryptocurrency mining. ” reads the analysis published by AT&T. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 10, 2025

The executable then downloads a text file containing XMRig configuration details to initiate mining activities. The executable then downloads a text file containing XMRig configuration details to initiate mining activities. ” reads the report published by CrowdStrike. ” concludes the report. ” concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

PaloAlto Network warns of the WatchDog botnet that uses exploits to take over Windows and Linux servers and mine cryptocurrency. 27, 2019 and already mined at least 209 Monero (XMR), valued to be around $32,056 USD. The WatchDog botnet has been active at least since Jan. Drupal Versions 7 and 8. x before 1.4.3)

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Security Affairs

MARCH 8, 2020

A few days ago EVRAZ , one of the world’s largest multinational vertically integrated steel making and mining companies, has been hit by the Ryuk ransomware. The City of Durham, North Carolina, was the last victim in order of time of the infamous Ryuk ransomware that infected its systems. 911 calls, though, are being answered.”

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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

JANUARY 28, 2021

The TeamTNT botnet is a crypto-mining malware operation that has been active since April 2020 and that targets Docker installs. The TeamTNT cybercrime group has improved its Linux cryptocurrency miner by implementing open-source detection evasion capabilities. Set persistence through systemd. Drop and activate the new tool as service.

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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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WIRED Threat Level

AUGUST 18, 2022

The Freedom of Information Act helps Americans learn what the government is up to. The Poseys exploited it—and became unlikely defenders of transparency.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 10, 2021

The TeamTNT botnet is a crypto-mining malware operation that has been active since April 2020 and that targets Docker installs. The malware deploys the XMRig mining tool to mine Monero cryptocurrency. Researchers from Trend Micro discovered that the TeamTNT botnet was improved and is now able to steal also Docker credentials.

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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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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

The malware uses the victim’s resource to mine cryptocurrency, steals cryptocurrency wallet-related files, and replaces wallet addresses in the clipboard to hijack cryptocurrency payments. Both of these programs are set up to connect to an operator-controlled mining server over the Tor proxy.” ” reads the report.

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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

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

A threat actor is launching brute-force attacks on MSSQL servers in the attempt to access them to install a new crypto-mining malware dubbed MrbMiner. A group of hackers is launching brute-force attacks on MSSQL servers with the intent to compromise them and install crypto-mining malware dubbed MrbMiner. Mining process.”

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Kinsing actors often exploited the PHPUnit vulnerability ( CVE-2017-9841 ) and it engaged in fully automated attacks as part of mining cryptocurrency. US CISA adds Looney Tunables Linux flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. while processing the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable. “We and 23.04, and Debian 12 and 13.”

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Security Affairs

MARCH 7, 2020

Computer systems at EVRAZ, a multinational vertically integrated steel making and mining company, have been hit by Ryuk ransomware. EVRAZ is one of the world’s largest multinational vertically integrated steel making and mining companies with headquarters in London. ” reported ZDNet.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 14, 2024

million) worth of cryptocurrencies via mining activities. “The suspect is believed to have mined over USD 2 million (EUR 1.8 ” An unnamed cloud service provider supported the investigation for months. “The suspect is believed to have mined over USD 2 million (EUR 1.8 million) in cryptocurrencies.”

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 25, 2021

“These particular applications are targeted because they often run on systems that have powerful underlying hardware with significant amounts of memory and powerful CPUs—all of which allow threat actors to maximize their ability to monetize these resources through mining cryptocurrency.” Ransomware, data theft).

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 30, 2024

Threat actors are actively exploiting a critical flaw in the Atlassian Confluence Data Center and Confluence Server in cryptocurrency mining campaigns. A second threat actor used a shell script to execute cryptocurrency mining activities across all accessible endpoints in the customer environment using Secure Shell (SSH).

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Security Affairs

APRIL 27, 2020

The VictoryGate bot propagates via infected USB devices, it was designed to mine Monero abusing resourced of compromised devices, it is also able to deliver additional payloads. The malware uses a stratum/XMRig proxy to hide the mining pool and terminates the mining process when the user opens Task Manager, to avoid to show the CPU usage.

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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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Security Affairs

AUGUST 18, 2020

The TeamTNT botnet is a crypto-mining malware operation that has been active since April and that targets Docker installs. “Over the weekend we’ve seen a crypto-mining worm spread that steals AWS credentials. Review network traffic for any connections to mining pools, or using the Stratum mining protocol.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Security experts from Akamai have spotted a new botnet used for illicit cryptocurrency mining activities that are abusing Bitcoin (BTC) transactions to implement a backup mechanism for C2. The operators of a long-running crypto-mining botnet campaign began creatively disguising their backup C2 IP address on the Bitcoin blockchain.”

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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

MAY 26, 2021

The TeamTNT botnet is a crypto-mining malware operation that has been active since April 2020 and that targets Docker installs. The malware deploys the XMRig mining tool to mine Monero cryptocurrency. Executes the script to start mining for the Monero cryptocurrency. aws/credentials and ~/.aws/config

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Security Affairs

JULY 7, 2022

Researchers uncovered a large-scale cryptocurrency mining campaign targeting the NPM JavaScript package repository. Checkmarx researchers spotted a new large-scale cryptocurrency mining campaign, tracked as CuteBoi , that is targeting the NPM JavaScript package repository. CuteBoi relies on a disposable email service called mail.tm

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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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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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