Security Affairs

APRIL 24, 2024

The issue in the update mechanism was present for at least five years. Puppeteer orchestrates the core functionality of the malware, including the cryptocurrency mining as well as the backdoor deployment. ” reads the analysis published by Avast. Avast already reported the issue to eScan and the India CERT.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 28, 2021

However, if an attacker possesses 51% or more of the computational power of the entire network, they can force nodes to accept their alternate chain, because it’s built with more mining power than the “legitimate” chain currently on the network. Attackers can use this method of rewriting history to reverse transactions.

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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

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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IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 10, 2023

Grasping these opportunities at IBM, we’re increasingly building our specialism in process mining and data analysis tools and techniques we believe to be true ‘game changers’ when it comes to building cultures of continuous change and innovation. Starting from the top: Focusing on the right change and making it feel right.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

According to Group-IB’s report findings, Asia is one of the most actively attacked regions in the world, the company presented latest cybercrime trends. A relatively new method of fraud on the ICO market was stealing a White Paper of ICO project and presenting an identical idea under a new brand name. Group-IB in Asia.

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Security Affairs

JULY 24, 2018

As long as the adb tools is being used in a secured environment, it presents little risk. As long as the adb tools is being used in a secured environment, it presents little risk. Since it appears to be killing Monero mining processes, the compromised devices could be retasked to mine cryptocurrency for a different group.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 26, 2023

“The five ccTLDs to which Freenom provides its services are the TLDs of choice for cybercriminals because Freenom provides free domain name registration services and shields its customers’ identity, even after being presented with evidence that the domain names are being used for illegal purposes,” Meta’s complaint charged.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 27, 2021

The LemonDuck malware that for the past couple of years has been known for its cryptocurrency mining and botnet capabilities is evolving into a much broader threat, moving into new areas of cyber attacks, targeting both Linux and Microsoft systems and expanding its geographical reach, according to security researchers with Microsoft.

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AIIM

JUNE 16, 2020

I co-presented a session at AIIM 2003. I included this last because it is the least valuable benefit I get from mine. Even though I’ve been an AIIM staff for more than 9 years, I continue to pay for my professional membership out of my own pocket. I outlined the general value of memberships in a previous post.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 25, 2021

The malware is not present in Virus Total at this time, it is written in.net and its code is not signed. The resource contains information for the mining activity, the researchers identified a self-compiled version of the XMrig open-source miner containing information such as username, password, algorithm, and mining pool.

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Archive-It

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Louis, MO November 15- 17 : Fantastic Futures — Vancouver, BC What we’re reading Scholarly Use of Web Archives Across Ireland: The Past, Present & Future(s) Sharon Healy (Maynooth University) and Helena Byrne (British Library) summarize the landscape of web archives based across Ireland and the challenges they have faced in this WARCnet report.

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Archive-It

AUGUST 10, 2023

In the second hour, Ruth Bryan, University Archivist from the University of Kentucky (UK) Special Collections Research Center (SCRC) presented UK Libraries’ Wildcat Histories: Preserving Student Activist Social Media Content. Ruth Bryan wraps up her presentation with her colleagues who presented by video, Emily Collier and Taylor Leigh.

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Archive-It

AUGUST 16, 2023

Memorial branch for a half-day of presentations and conversations about web archives and research. Memorial branch for a half-day of presentations and conversations about web archives and research. Summer Roundup The Archive-It team, along with other Archiving and Data Services team members, have had a busy few months. We’re Hiring!

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 9, 2023

Normally at this point, Experian’s website would present four or five multiple-guess questions, such as “Which of the following addresses have you lived at?” For example, there were four phone numbers on my Experian credit file: Only one of them was mine, and that one hasn’t been mine for ages.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

APT41’s activities span from the mid-2000s to the present day. ” The government alleges the group monetized its illicit access by deploying ransomware and “ cryptojacking ” tools (using compromised systems to mine cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin). Tan DaiLin, a.k.a. “Wicked Rose,” in his younger years.

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Troy Hunt

JUNE 26, 2020

I'm literally surrounded by broken pieces of half finished repairs. My office is usually a pretty organised place so it's kinda frustrating, but then I'm replacing equipment that's seen up to a decade or more of solid use so that's not a bad run.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Typical unstructured data includes a long list of files—emails, Word docs, social media, text files, job applications, text messages, digital photos, audio and visual files, spreadsheets, presentations, digital surveillance, traffic and weather data, and more. But with no orderly internal framework, unstructured data defies data mining tools.

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Archive-It

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Visualization presented at the Humanities and the Web: Introduction to Web Archive Data Analysis, November 14, 2022, Los Angeles Public Library. ICYMI: Game Walkthroughs and Web Archiving Presentation now online. You can access the presentation slides here: IIPC RSS Webinar: Game Walkthroughs and Web Archiving Presentation.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

com , a cryptocurrency mining service that has been heavily abused to force hacked Web sites to mine virtual currency. Coinhive took a whopping 30 percent of the cut of all Monero currency mined by its code, and this presented something of a conflict of interest when it came to stopping the rampant abuse of its platform.

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Information Governance Perspectives

JUNE 18, 2023

And sadly, in too many cases, a father or mother may have never really been present in a child’s life to begin with. Despite my father’s shortcomings (and mine) and our sometimes rocky relationship, he lived long enough for us to work out our problems and we ended up on a good note. How can it ever be anything but that?

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 14, 2018

Earlier August, experts uncovered a massive crypto jacking campaign that was targeting MikroTik routers to inject a Coinhive cryptocurrency mining script in the web traffic. In September thousands of unpatched MikroTik Routers were involved in new cryptocurrency mining campaigns.

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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 botnet targets systems with SSH ports (23 and 2323) exposed online by launching brute-force attacks. ” concludes the post.

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Malwarebytes reports that, once installed, DarkGate Loader can be used for many nefarious purposes, including “remote access, cryptocurrency mining, keylogging, clipboard stealing, and information stealing”. More recently, it has mainly distributed the JSSLoader malware for the Sangria Tempest group.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

. “Among these 48 recovered residential proxies IP addresses, 28 (58.3%) of those were already present in our sinkhole systems, associated with the Mylobot malware family,” Arnoud continued. “This number is probably higher, but we don’t have a full visibility of the botnet. com on Mar. com first came online Feb.

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IBM Big Data Hub

MARCH 27, 2024

However, while spend-based commodity-class level data presents an opportunity to help address the difficulties associates with Scope 3 emissions accounting, manually mapping high volumes of financial ledger entries to commodity classes is an exceptionally time-consuming, error-prone process. Why are Scope 3 emissions difficult to calculate?

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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. “Cryptojacking malware targeting the cloud is evolving as attackers understand the potential of that environment to mine for crypto coins. “Pro-Ocean uses known vulnerabilities to target cloud applications.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 22, 2023

While Kubernetes presents a promising solution for addressing these challenges, MNOs need to mitigate the data security challenges that arise from using Kubernetes for 5G deployments. Kubernetes presents a promising solution by enabling the efficient management of containers within the 5G network infrastructure.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 22, 2023

While Kubernetes presents a promising solution for addressing these challenges, MNOs need to mitigate the data security challenges that arise from using Kubernetes for 5G deployments. Kubernetes presents a promising solution by enabling the efficient management of containers within the 5G network infrastructure.

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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 researchers observed the use of the Cobalt Strike and PowerShell reverse shells, along with Meterpreter, njRAT ( aka Bladabindi) , and HabitsRAT. ” Microsoft concludes.

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Data Protection Report

OCTOBER 12, 2023

For example, miners would expect to wear location tracking devices in the mine due to the risk of accidents, while office workers would not. The Data Protection and Digital Information Bill is set to widen the circumstances where automated decision making can be used, but these restrictions remain in place at present.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JULY 6, 2023

Areas making up the data science field include mining, statistics, data analytics, data modeling, machine learning modeling and programming. as well as math, statistics, data visualization (to present the results to stakeholders) and data mining. What is machine learning? That’s where data science comes in.

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Collibra

MARCH 12, 2024

When using traditional BI capabilities alone, we can generate a report that presents historical customer churn over a specific period of time. Once you have a thorough understanding of your data, you can begin applying advanced analytics techniques such as predictive modeling, AI/machine learning and data mining.

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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. The impact of the vulnerability is massive and attackers have started taking advantage of the flaw. Coinminers. DDoS botnet payloads.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2020

This directory contains the crypto mining module named kswapd0. This component has two main functions: Install a cryptoMiner worker: The main purpose of this elf file is the instantiation of a crypto-mining worker. It is a fork of XMRIG project, one of the most popular software to mine monero crypto values.

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