OpenText Information Management

MARCH 13, 2019

Even though data mining and text mining are often seen as complementary analytic processes that solve business problems through data analysis, they differ on the type of data they handle. While data mining handles structured data – highly formatted data such as in databases or ERP systems – text mining deals with unstructured textual data … The post What’s the difference between data mining and text mining?

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Data Breach Today

APRIL 24, 2020

The botnet's main purpose was mining monero cryptocurrency ESET: 'VictoryGate' Infected 35,000 Devices VictoryGate, a recently discovered botnet that infected about 35,000 devices with malware, has been disabled by researchers from security firm ESET.

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Data Breach Today

JUNE 26, 2020

Researchers Found Images on Docker Hub That Contained Cryptominers A recently uncovered cryptomining scheme used malicious Docker images to hide cryptocurrency mining code, according to an analysis from Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42

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Threatpost

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Researchers warn of a spike in the cryptocurrency-mining botnet since August 2020. Vulnerabilities Web Security AMD attack spike bluekeep botnet brute force Cisco Talos COVID-19 Cryptocurrency cryptomining DNS GTX lemon duck Linux Monero Nvidia RDP Windows

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Threatpost

APRIL 2, 2020

The feature, criticized for "undisclosed data-mining," is only the latest privacy faux pas for Zoom this month. Privacy Vulnerabilities Web Security Data Mining Data security disabled LinkedIn linkedin feature navigator public response removes Security issues zoom zoom data zoom security

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 23, 2018

After gaining control of the coin-mining software, the malware replaces the wallet address the computer owner uses to collect newly minted currency with an address controlled by the attacker. This is a clever attack. From then on, the attacker receives all coins generated, and owners are none the wiser unless they take time to manually inspect their software configuration. So far it hasn't been very profitable, but it -- or some later version -- eventually will be.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2018

Additionally, the campaign is sophisticated in seeking to detect, analyse and neutralise other competing crypto-mining malware. I’ve been following the Monero mining pool address used in the Ngrok campaign and regularly checking for other research references on the internet. Firstly nearly all attacks observed were Crypto-mining attackers. Enumerate all processes and immediately kill any that meet a pre-defined kill list (other mining processes).

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Data Breach Today

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Do healthcare entities face a growing risk of being hit with cryptocurrency mining attacks, which have become more common in other sectors? Are More Healthcare Sector Entities at Risk? A Tennessee hospital may be the first victim in the sector, and some security experts predict many more such incidents

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Security Affairs

MAY 10, 2020

Crooks exploit CVE-2019-18935 deserialization vulnerability to achieve remote code execution in Blue Mockingbird Monero-Mining campaign. Researchers at security firm Red Canary uncovered a Monero cryptocurrency-mining campaign, tracked as Blue Mockingbird, that exploits the CVE-2019-18935 vulnerability in web applications built on the ASP.NET framework. The post Blue Mockingbird Monero-Mining campaign targets web apps appeared first on Security Affairs.

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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. Trouble was, killing the key did nothing to stop Coinhive’s code from continuing to mine Monero on a hacked site.

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Data Breach Today

AUGUST 3, 2018

Researchers: Attackers Have Compromised More Than 209,000 Routers Attackers have targeted a patched vulnerability to exploit more than 209,000 carrier-grade routers made by Latvian manufacturer MicroTik and infect them with two types of malware - Coinhive and Crypto-Loot - designed to mine for cryptocurrency, security researchers say

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OpenText Information Management

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Not that long-ago, social media was the “new kid on the block,” something we used to share photos with distant family members, comment … The post Is social media being mined for insider threats? This blog is co-authored by Annie John and Todd Cernetic.

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Security Affairs

JULY 22, 2020

Prometei is a crypto-mining botnet that recently appeared in the threat landscape, it exploits the Microsoft Windows SMB protocol for lateral movements. move laterally across systems while covertly mining for cryptocurrency. .

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Security Affairs

JULY 28, 2018

Google has updated the Play Store Developer Policy page to ban mobile mining apps that mine cryptocurrencies using the computational resources of the devices. Following Apple’s decision of banning cryptocurrency mining apps announced in June, also Google has updated the Play Store Developer Policy page to ban mobile apps that mine cryptocurrencies using the computational resources of the devices. Securi ty Affairs – mining apps, Google).

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Security Affairs

MAY 12, 2019

Two hacking groups associated with large-scale crypto mining campaigns, Pacha Group and Rocke Group , wage war to compromise as much as possible cloud-based infrastructure. Researchers at Intezer Labs continued to monitor this cybercrime group and discovered that it is also targeting cloud-based environments and working to disrupt operations of other crypto-mining groups, such as the Rocke Group.

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Adam Levin

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

A federal appellate court ruled that mining and aggregating user data publicly posted to social media sites is allowable by law. In an opinion released earlier this month, the 9th Circuit U.S.Court of Appeals upheld an injunction against employment-centric social network LinkedIn from blocking access to hiQ, a data mining company that sells aggregated user information. . The post Court Rules in Favor of Mining LinkedIn User Data appeared first on Adam Levin.

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InfoGoTo

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

When cryptojacking, criminal hackers use enterprise computers to mine cryptocurrencies like bitcoin without the organization’s knowledge or consent, escaping the upfront costs of buying computers or computer processing power for the job. Illicit cryptominers seize a computer’s or device’s processor to mine the cryptocurrency.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 21, 2018

Interesting paper " A first look at browser-based cryptojacking ": Abstract : In this paper, we examine the recent trend towards in-browser mining of cryptocurrencies; in particular, the mining of Monero through Coinhive and similar code-bases. In this model, a user visiting a website will download a JavaScript code that executes client-side in her browser, mines a cryptocurrency, typically without her consent or knowledge, and pays out the seigniorage to the website.

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Adam Levin

MAY 5, 2020

Hackers successfully breached the servers of a popular blogging platform and used them to mine cryptocurrency. “The mining attempt… quickly overloaded most of our systems which alerted us to the issue immediately,” the company announced May 3, adding that “[t]here is no direct evidence that private customer data, passwords or other information has been compromised. . The post Ghost Blogging Platform Hacked To Mine Cryptocurrency appeared first on Adam Levin.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 3, 2018

Illicit crypto mining is advancing apace. It began when threat actors began stealthily embedding crypto mining functionality into the web browsers of unwitting individuals. Related article: Illicit crypto mining hits cloud services. Cybercriminals have shifted their focus to burrowing onto company servers and then redirecting those corporate computing resources to crypto mining chores. Arsene: It’s important to understand that crypto mining may seem benign.

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Dark Reading

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Decatur County General Hospital is notifying 24,000 patients of cryptocurrency mining software on its EMR system

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Data Breach Today

JUNE 4, 2018

Expert Says Virtual Currency Systems Leak Useful Data to Track Criminals Experts have long warned that bitcoin is not as private as it appears. The very design of bitcoin, as well as some other virtual currencies, can lend a surprising amount of information about the groups using it to transact. In fact, it's sometimes easier to track than if criminals used the banking system

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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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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

A water utility in Europe has been infected by cryptocurrency mining software. This is a relatively new attack : hackers compromise computers and force them to mine cryptocurrency for them. It seems that this mining software is benign, and doesn't affect the performance of the hacked computer. (A This is the first time I've seen it infect SCADA systems, though. A smart virus doesn't kill its host.) But that's not going to always be the case.

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Threatpost

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

KryptoCibule spreads via pirated software and game torrents.

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IG Guru

JULY 28, 2020

NAGARA’s 2020 Summer Online Forum: Mining Our Past, Engineering Our Future is on Friday, July 31, 2020! The post NAGARA Webinar – Mining Our Past, Engineering Our Future – Registration and Fee Required – 5 Credits appeared first on IG GURU.

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OpenText Information Management

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

That’s … The post Release 16 EP5 gives Magellan more text mining power and better user experience appeared first on OpenText Blogs. Analytics AI Captiva Dutch EP5 Hadoop Italian magellan Magellan Text Mining OpenText Analytics OpenText Captiva Capture OpenText Magellan Qfiniti semantic metadata smart UI text mining unstructured data web crawlersAnalytics are no longer just a matter of “crunching the numbers” in a database or spreadsheet.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 23, 2019

The Ukrainian Secret Service is investigating the case of employees at a nuclear power plant that connected its system online to mine cryp tocurrency. The Ukrainian Secret Service (SBU) launched an investigation after employees at a local nuclear power plant connected some systems of the internal network to the Internet to mine cryptocurrency. On July 10, agents of the SBU raided the nuclear power plant and discovered the equipment used by the employees to mining cryptocurrency.

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WIRED Threat Level

AUGUST 24, 2019

Xbox eavesdropping, email scammers, and more of the week's top security news. Security Security / Security News

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Information Management Resources

JANUARY 6, 2020

Data mining can help enterprises identify anomalies, patterns, and correlations within large unstructured data sets to predict business outcomes. Analytics Data management Data mining

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Dark Reading

JANUARY 8, 2018

A malware tool for stealthily installing software that mines the Monero virtual currency looks like the handiwork of North Korean threat actors, AlienVault says

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WIRED Threat Level

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

The recent rash of cryptojacking attacks has hit a Tesla database that contained potentially sensitive information. Security

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Threatpost

MAY 7, 2020

The cybercriminals are using a deserialization vulnerability, CVE-2019-18935, to achieve remote code execution before moving laterally through the enterprise. Cryptography Vulnerabilities Web Security ASP.NET blue mockingbird cryptomining CVE-2019-18935 deserialization vulnerability Exploit Monero project telerik ui Red Canary remote code execution XMRig

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Information Management Resources

MARCH 18, 2018

EHR analysis Genome sequencing Diseases and conditions Diagnosis and treatment Data mining Clinical decision supportResearchers applied phenotype risk scores to nearly 22,000 genotyped individuals, says Vanderbilt’s Josh Denny, MD.

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Threatpost

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Though harboring unsophisticated payloads, the Panda threat group has updated its tactics - from targets to infrastructure - and successfully mined hundreds of thousands of dollars using cryptomining malware. Hacks Malware C2 crypto miner cryptomining infrastructure malware massminer panda payload threat group

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

The popular in-browser cryptocurrency mining service Coinhive has announced that it will shut down on March 8, 2019. Security firms spotted several hacking campaigns aimed at compromising websites to install JavaScript-based Monero (XMR) cryptocurrency mining scripts and monetize their efforts. When unaware users visit compromised websites, the script starts using their computers’ processing power to mine cryptocurrency.

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Threatpost

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Infosec Insider Derek Manky discusses how new technologies and economic models are facilitating fuzzing in today's security landscape. InfoSec Insider ai artificial intelligence fuzzing vulnerabilities zero day

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Security Affairs

JULY 19, 2019

The Israeli surveillance firm NSO Group informed its clients that it is able to scoop user data by mining from major social media. The Financial Times reported that the Israeli surveillance firm NSO Group informed its clients that it is able to mine user data from major social media. The post Israel surveillance firm NSO group can mine data from major social media appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Information Management Resources

AUGUST 22, 2018

Data mining Customer data Data managementLinkedIn Corp., the professional social networking site owned by Microsoft Corp., says it will open its vast trove of data to academic researchers.

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Dark Reading

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

New attack uses a repurposed version of the Trojan that spreads using Internet Relay Chat

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