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. Bilogorskiy.

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Mining Cloud Ransomware Passwords 126

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. It overloaded the #authenticate method on the Identity class.

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Libraries Mining Passwords Authentication 92

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. Cloud security firm Aqua Security uncovered a hacking campaign carried out during the past months, hackers are scanning the Internet for Docker servers running API ports exposed without a password.

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Mining Libraries Cloud Communications 100

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. “This one seems to target enterprise systems.” ” wrote Cashdollar. ” Cashdollar concludes.

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IoT Honeypots Libraries Archiving 92

ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Guido Vranken returns to The Hacker Mind to discuss his CryptoFuzz tool on GitHub, as well as his experience fuzzing and finding vulnerabilities in cryptographic libraries and also within cryptocurrencies such as Ethereum. So what if you accidentally forget the password? That means it falls to you to protect your cryptocurrency.

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Libraries Blockchain Mining Encryption 52

Brandeis Records Manager

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Info literacy has largely become the preserve of the library community , with a focus on teaching scholars and citizens to navigate and to differentiate the information that confronts us. Should it exclude avoiding rogue apps, weak passwords, and phishing attempts? Sound familiar? I don’t think so.

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Records Management Fact denial ROT Libraries 46

IT Governance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

As is now traditional, I’ve installed myself in the porter’s chair next to the fire in the library, ready to recap some of the year’s more newsworthy information security events. that the crooks were only able to mine a paltry $24 – which Coinhive refused to pay out anyway. Users were encouraged to change their passwords.

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Data breaches Personal data Access GDPR 71