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Canadian Copper Mountain Mining Corporation (CMMC) shut down the mill after a ransomware attack

Security Affairs

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. . Pierluigi Paganini.

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Atlassian Confluence bug CVE-2022-26134 exploited in cryptocurrency mining campaign

Security Affairs

Threat actors are targeting unpatched Atlassian Confluence servers as part of an ongoing crypto mining campaign. Trend Micro researchers warn of an ongoing crypto mining campaign targeting Atlassian Confluence servers affected by the CVE-2022-26134 vulnerability. The gap is being abused for malicious cryptocurrency mining.”

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Qilin ransomware steals credentials stored in Google Chrome

Security Affairs

Sophos researchers investigated a Qilin ransomware breach attack that led to the theft of credentials stored in Google Chrome browsers. Sophos researchers investigated a Qilin ransomware attack where operators stole credentials stored in Google Chrome browsers of a limited number of compromised endpoints. ” concludes the report.

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UnityMiner targets unpatched QNAP NAS in cryptocurrency mining campaign

Security Affairs

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 In January, the Taiwanese vendor QNAP published a security advisory to warn customers of a new piece of malware named Dovecat that was targeting NAS devices.

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Will cryptocurrency mining soon saturate AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud?

The Last Watchdog

Related: Why cryptojacking is more insidious than ransomware. 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. It was insane.

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New P2Pinfect version delivers miners and ransomware on Redis servers

Security Affairs

Researchers warn that the P2Pinfect worm is targeting Redis servers with ransomware and cryptocurrency mining payloads. Cado Security researchers warned that the P2Pinfect worm is employed in attacks against Redis servers, aimed at deploying both ransomware and cryptocurrency mining payloads.

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Conti Ransomware Group Diaries, Part IV: Cryptocrime

Krebs on Security

Three stories here last week pored over several years’ worth of internal chat records stolen from the Conti ransomware group, the most profitable ransomware gang in operation today. Before that, Jeffrey Ladish , an information security consultant based in Oakland, Calif., ” Stern wrote.