Security Affairs
MAY 10, 2020
Crooks exploit CVE-2019-18935 deserialization vulnerability to achieve remote code execution in Blue Mockingbird Monero-Mining campaign. Each payload comes compiled with a standard list of commonly used Monero-mining domains alongside a Monero wallet address,” continues the analysis. “So
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. Or you can hijack other people’s computers to do the mining. LW: I can’t really use my MacBook to mine Bitcoin, can I?
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Security Affairs
AUGUST 20, 2019
Maintainers of the RubyGems package repository have removed 18 malicious versions of 11 Ruby libraries that contained a backdoor. Maintainers of the RubyGems package repository have discovered a backdoor mechanism in 18 malicious versions of 11 Ruby libraries. The backdoor was used by attackers to inject mining code in Ruby projects using the malicious versions of the libraries.
CILIP
NOVEMBER 13, 2020
Apprentice Library Assistant. Working in a library was always a goal of mine, but I was never quite sure how to get there. Assignments set by LMP and projects arising in the workplace equip me with both a broad and specialist insight into library provision.
IT Governance
FEBRUARY 1, 2018
Unfortunately, however, the BBC reports that there are a few “teething troubles […] with some users saying their privacy has been compromised after responding to an on-screen prompt asking for access to their photo library. The app then still […] accesses the photo library whether the user denies access or not.”. Wait a moment – cryptocurrency mining ?
Preservica
SEPTEMBER 4, 2019
Preservica’s Cloud Edition for Consortia delivers value of complete Preservica offering for budget-strapped Academic Libraries. Preservica, the market leader in SaaS-based active digital preservation, is pleased to announce that the Fenway Library Organization (FLO) has selected Preservica’s Cloud Edition for consortia to preserve and safeguard digital content for its members. The libraries will preserve archival materials that are part of the institutional memory.
Unwritten Record
JUNE 17, 2020
The film, West Virginia and Its Natural Resources , was part of the film library of the Bureau of Mines. The library served as a way to further agency’s mission to spread information on the extraction, processing, use and conservation of mineral resources.
Security Affairs
SEPTEMBER 10, 2018
Thousands of unpatched MikroTik Routers are involved in new cryptocurrency mining campaigns. Thousands of unpatched devices are mining for cryptocurrency at the moment. 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. The expert found 3,734 devices by querying Shodan for MikroTik routers running the mining tool, and the number is growing.
CILIP
JUNE 29, 2021
Maintaining the status quo for public libraries ? Here he speaks to Rob Mackinlay about why not challenging the methods used by publishers to protect their content will damage not only libraries, but also threatens research and innovation. ?Publishers This has undermined libraries?
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. “One of the easiest ways is cryptojacking – the illegal use of someone else’s computing resources to mine cryptocurrencies.
IBM Big Data Hub
NOVEMBER 30, 2022
Just a few weeks ago, IBM announced an expansion to their embeddable AI software portfolio with the release of three containerized Watson libraries. The new libraries include: IBM Watson Natural Language Processing Library for Embed. IBM Watson Speech-to-Text Library for Embed.
Security Affairs
OCTOBER 23, 2021
CISA warned of crypto-mining malware hidden in a popular JavaScript NPM library, named UAParser.js, which has millions of weekly downloads. The popular library has million of weekly downloads. The U.S.
Security Affairs
DECEMBER 13, 2021
Threat actors are already abusing Log4Shell vulnerability in the Log4j library for malicious purposes such as deploying malware. ” Talos researchers also updated the list of IOCs to include information about mining activity carried out by exploiting the CVE-2021-44228 flaw.
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 “preloading” technique allows the system to load a custom shared library before other system libraries are loaded.
Security Affairs
FEBRUARY 5, 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.
Security Affairs
FEBRUARY 15, 2019
The malicious Monero (XMR) Coinhive cryptomining scripts were delivered leveraging the Google’s legitimate Google Tag Manager (GTM) library. “As soon as the apps are downloaded and launched, they fetch a coin-mining JavaScript library by triggering Google Tag Manager (GTM) in their domain servers. The mining script then gets activated and begins using the majority of the computer’s CPU cycles to mine Monero for the operators.”
Security Affairs
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
These files have been identified as variants of the XMRIG cryptocurrency mining software. Iran-linked threat actors compromised a Federal Civilian Executive Branch organization using a Log4Shell exploit and installed a cryptomining malware.
CILIP
JANUARY 23, 2023
THROUGHOUT history, libraries have been grounded in physical artefacts and a sense of place – in print books and library buildings. The advent of digital collections, and the notion of a ‘digital library’, prompted something of an existential crisis, presaging the potential demise of libraries as physical places. Yes, there has been a digital revolution, and most libraries’ collections and activities are either fully digital or have significant digital components.
Security Affairs
APRIL 6, 2020
Experts uncovered a hacking campaign that is breaching Docker clusters to deploy a new crypto-mining malware tracked as Kinsing. gopsutil – a process utility library, used for system and processes monitoring.
Security Affairs
JANUARY 5, 2022
Microsoft is warning of continuing attempts by nation-state actors and cybercriminals to exploit recently discovered vulnerabilities in the Apache Log4j library to deploy malware on vulnerable systems.
Security Affairs
JANUARY 31, 2021
“LD_PRELOAD forces binaries to load specific libraries before others, allowing the preloaded libraries to override any function from any library. One of the ways to use LD_PRELOAD is to add the crafted library to /etc/ld.so.preload.”
CILIP
AUGUST 9, 2022
Nicola Semple, Library Officer, The Manchester College and UCEN. In 2019 I changed careers and started the Library and Information Management MA at Manchester Metropolitan University. Patrick Malone, Library Manager, Roehampton Library. New Voices Big Ideas.
Security Affairs
FEBRUARY 11, 2022
“The new implementation uses a public SCP library written in Golang in GitHub. It is, however, notable that the writers of the SCP library are located in China.”
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.
Security Affairs
NOVEMBER 18, 2020
The malware also installs three other files, hhc.exe, hha.dll and chaes1.bin, researchers also observed the use of a cryptocurrency mining module. .
The Last Watchdog
MAY 8, 2019
The adware applications were linked together by the use of third-party Android libraries, which bypass the background service restrictions present in newer Android versions. However, our analysts were able to detect it because apps using these libraries waste the user’s battery and make the device slower. In this instance, the libraries kept displaying more and more ads, which does violate the Google Play Store rules.
CILIP
APRIL 11, 2022
By Harriet Hopkins, Library Manager and Strategic Lead: Programming & Promotion at Awen Cultural Trust. Public libraries training is a mixed bag ? t have at Awen Libraries ? Library of Wales, and some aren?t t even in stock in other libraries nearby.
Security Affairs
SEPTEMBER 2, 2019
“I suspect it’s probably a derivate of other IoT crypto mining botnets,” Cashdollar told The Register. “The malware is uploaded as gzip compressed tarball archives of binaries, scripts, and libraries. The libraries reside under the directory c/lib I thought it would be required to run the binaries in the tarball , but the binaries are compiled statically, so the libraries are extraneous.”
CILIP
MARCH 19, 2021
ve read that only seven libraries have been taken to court in the UK. As chair of a university library committee, she has followed the current ebook pricing controversy and believes it is a symptom of a deeper problem. ?They?re Here the text mining is used to hunt down references. ?You
Security Affairs
JANUARY 18, 2019
The Commons FileUpload library is the default file upload mechanism in Struts 2, the CVE-2016-1000031 was discovered two years ago by experts at Tenable. The critical patch advisory for 2019 also fixed the CVE-2018-11776 vulnerability in the OCA’s Communications Policy Management Component, this issue was exploited in 2018 by threat actors to mine cryptocurrency.
eSecurity Planet
NOVEMBER 7, 2022
Also known as an “application rootkit,” the user-mode rootkit replaces executables and system libraries and modifies the behavior of application programming interfaces (APIs). In the ever-evolving world of malware , rootkits are some of the most dangerous threats out there.
Archive-It
MAY 3, 2022
Guest post by Tricia Dean, Tech Services Manager at Wilmington Public Library District (IL). Wilmington Public Library. Most Archive-It partners are universities, museums and large libraries, and being in their company was a little daunting to me initially.
CILIP
NOVEMBER 25, 2021
Here he gives his view of changes in the job market for library and information roles in the corporate sector. Sue Wills, who is responsible for Arts, Heritage, Libraries and Registration Services at Surrey County Council, interprets the jobs market in public libraries.
Troy Hunt
MARCH 31, 2021
I'll give you a perfect example of that last point: in Feb 2018 I wrote about The JavaScript Supply Chain Paradox: SRI, CSP and Trust in Third Party Libraries wherein someone had compromised a JS file on the Browsealoud service and injected the Coinhive script into it.
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. Archiving Twitter During the Upheaval – Derek Cameron discusses how their approach to mining Canadian conversations about COVID-19 on Twitter for the Remember Rebuild Saskatchewan project has gained new urgency. ICYMI: National Library of History Talk “What’s in a Web Archive Collection” now online. Northfield Public Library.
Security Affairs
JUNE 5, 2019
“Simultaneous with its attacks, BlackSquid also downloads and executes two XMRig cryptocurrency-mining components.! If the system checks for Nvidia and AMD video cards using WQL (WMI Query Language, where WMI stands for Windows Management Instrumentation), the malware downloads the second component into the system to mine for graphics processing unit (GPU) resource.”
Security Affairs
FEBRUARY 19, 2019
Shade connects to its C2 server using embedded TOR libraries and downloads additional modules, such as the aforementioned “CMSBrute” or the “ZCash miner” one. A quick review of the launching parameters shows interesting information: the type and the version of the mining client used by the attacker, a “ NHEQ Miner ” developed by Nicehash; the mining pool abused by the criminal; and the wallet ID ( t1L9iBXyRgaYrQ5JSTSdstopV6pHtZ2Xdep).
Krebs on Security
JULY 22, 2020
“can u edit that comment out, @tankska is a gaming twitter of mine and i dont want it to be on ogu :D’,” lol wrote.
The Last Watchdog
NOVEMBER 4, 2019
Bitcoin mining, for instance, is a contest to solve a difficult cryptographic puzzle in order to earn the right to add the next block of validated ledger entries to the historical chain of ledger blocks. Launched in 2016, Hyperledger has begun incubating projects such as Hyperledger Ursa , which is intended to be a go-to, shared cryptographic library. “In
Security Affairs
AUGUST 3, 2018
Experts uncovered a massive cryptojacking campaign that is targeting MikroTik routers to inject a Coinhive cryptocurrency mining script in the web traffic. Security experts have uncovered a massive cryptojacking campaign that is targeting MikroTik routers, the hackers aim to change the configuration of the devices to inject a Coinhive cryptocurrency mining script in the users’ web traffic.
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