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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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 activity of the TeamTNT group has been detailed by security firm Trend Micro, but in August experts from Cado Security discovered that that botnet is also able to target misconfigured Kubernetes installations.

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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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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

These files have been identified as variants of the XMRIG cryptocurrency mining software. Secure credentials by restricting where accounts and credentials can be used. The post Iran-linked threat actors compromise US Federal Network appeared first on Security Affairs. Use best practices for identity and access management (IAM).

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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. file from coinhive.com and the setting of a 32-byte key. Windows+NT+10.0;+Win64;+x64)+AppleWebKit/537.36+(KHTML,+like+Gecko)+apollohobo/1.0.0+Chrome/58.0.3029.110+Electron/1.7.9+Safari/537.36

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Security experts at Symantec have discovered eight potentially unwanted applications (PUAs) into the Microsoft Store that were dropping cryptojacking Coinhive miners. The malicious Monero (XMR) Coinhive cryptomining scripts were delivered leveraging the Google’s legitimate Google Tag Manager (GTM) library. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 25, 2019

The best news of the week with Security Affairs. A backdoor mechanism found in tens of Ruby libraries. Employees abused systems at Ukrainian nuclear power plant to mine cryptocurrency. Hackers are scanning the web for vulnerable Fortinet, Pulse Secure Products installs. A new round of the weekly newsletter arrived!

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Preservica

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Preservica’s Cloud Edition for Consortia delivers value of complete Preservica offering for budget-strapped Academic Libraries. FLO helps its members with library systems, resource sharing and technical support, as well as fostering community collaboration and statewide recognition.

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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.” ” continues the analysis. Pro-Ocean deploys an XMRig miner 5.11.1

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Schneier on Security

JULY 11, 2023

The Washington Post has an article about popular printing services, and whether or not they read your documents and mine the data when you use them for printing: Ideally, printing services should avoid storing the content of your files, or at least delete daily. Some services, like the New York Public Library and PrintWithMe, do both.

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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.”. What’s that?

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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. .” ” continues the report. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Cybereason Nocturnus security researchers have identified an active campaign focused on the users of a large e-commerce platform in Latin America. bin, researchers also observed the use of a cryptocurrency mining module. . The malware also installs three other files, hhc.exe, hha.dll and chaes1.bin, ” concludes the report.

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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. The post Threat actors continue to exploit Log4j flaws in their attacks, Microsoft Warns appeared first on Security Affairs.

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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.” The post FritzFrog P2P Botnet is back and targets Healthcare, Education and Government Sectors appeared first on Security Affairs. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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. System administrators need to employ security best practices with the systems they manage.”

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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. Even if the vendor released a security fix that addresses the flaw in April, the number of not updated routers is still very high.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 8, 2019

I had the chance to sit down with Nikolaos Chrysaidos (pictured), head of mobile threat intelligence and security at Avast, to drill down on the wider context of the helpful findings apklabl.io However, our analysts were able to detect it because apps using these libraries waste the user’s battery and make the device slower.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 30, 2020

The Decipher Security podcast by Duo Security analyzes the news, explores the impact of the latest risks, and provides informative and educational material for readers intent on understanding how security affects our world. Thanks to these crypto libraries, today’s online economy is the size of Spain’s GDP!

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 30, 2020

The Decipher Security podcast by Duo Security analyzes the news, explores the impact of the latest risks, and provides informative and educational material for readers intent on understanding how security affects our world. Thanks to these crypto libraries, today’s online economy is the size of Spain’s GDP!

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 30, 2020

The Decipher Security podcast by Duo Security analyzes the news, explores the impact of the latest risks, and provides informative and educational material for readers intent on understanding how security affects our world. Thanks to these crypto libraries, today’s online economy is the size of Spain’s GDP!

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

This also gives them the ability to deftly evade detection by functioning at the same security level as the OS itself. Also known as an “application rootkit,” the user-mode rootkit replaces executables and system libraries and modifies the behavior of application programming interfaces (APIs). performing regular security maintenance.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

EventTracker has a bird’s eye view; its unified security information and event management (SIEM) platform includes – behavior analytics, threat detection and response, honeynet deception, intrusion detection and vulnerability assessment – all of which are coupled with their SOC for a co-managed solution. Election threat.

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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 post Oracle critical patch advisory addresses 284 flaws, 33 critical appeared first on Security Affairs. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Related: Securing identities in a blockchain Today we may be standing on the brink of the next great upheaval. 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.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 5, 2019

Security experts at Trend Micro have discovered a new Monero cryptomining miner, dubbed BlackSquid, that is targeting web servers, network drives, and removable drives. “Simultaneous with its attacks, BlackSquid also downloads and executes two XMRig cryptocurrency-mining components.! continues the analysis. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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. According to Trustwave the hackers were exploiting a zero-day flaw in the MikroTik routers to inject a copy of the Coinhive library in the traffic passing through the MikroTik router.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Since the beginning of the year, security firms observed a new intense ransomware campaign spreading the Shade ransomware. Between January and February, a new, intense, ransomware campaign has been observed by many security firms. However, the mining pool dashboard provides a clue of the current number of infected machines.

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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. Nor am I going to wade into the debate about the ecological consequences of mining cryptocurrencies.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 9, 2020

The operation was launched in June 2019, the experts first identified the compromised devices then alerted victims to install security patches that lock out the malicious code. Let me close by highlighting the importance of collaboration between the authorities and the private security firms in the fight against emerging cyber threats.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

This week, we discuss the use of cryptocurrency mining software on numerous government websites, a phishing scam that robbed Bee Token investors of $1 million and cyber attacks on the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics. I mentioned cyber criminals’ increasing use of cryptocurrency mining or ‘cryptomining’ software a couple of weeks ago.

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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. Public libraries jobs. ?There Academic Libraries. ?From

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The Texas Record

JUNE 28, 2021

After all, records management also involves security policies, regulatory compliance, and complete lifecycle management. Source: Texas State Library and Archives Commission. “Appropriate storage” means that you have the right infrastructure to keep your documents accessible, readable, and secure.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 30, 2021

There are a lot of parallels between computer security and biology. Welcome to the hacker mind and original podcast from Brawl secure, it's about challenging our expectations about the people who hack for a living. Green: So there are a lot of information security parallels. Did I just say biology. It's good question.

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Imperial Violet

JUNE 25, 2016

Emphasis is mine.). says that passing a NULL pointer to a standard library function is undefined behaviour, therefore if dest was NULL any behaviour is reasonable. can be applied to any standard library function. I'm sure that 7.1.4 If you read 7.24.2.1 The compiler's reasoning goes like this: 7.1.4 Section 7.1.4 Measurement.

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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. “just dont want my irl getting sus[pended].” “Put me down for 100, but don’t note my name in the thread please,” lol wrote.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 21, 2022

Kyle Hanslovan CEO of Huntress Labs joins The Hacker Mind to discuss recent LoL attacks, specifically the Microsoft Follina attack and the Kaseya ransomware attack, and how important it is for small and medium sized businesses to start using enterprise grade security, given the evolving nature of these attacks. They'd be allowed, right?

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