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Australian Mining Giant Confirms BianLian Ransomware Attack

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News Comes on Heels of Treasury Forcing Chinese Investors to Divest BianLian Shares Australian mining giant Northern Minerals says cybercriminals stole sensitive corporate secrets from its systems not long after the government forced several Chinese investors to divest their shares in the company.

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Researchers Discover New Malware Aimed at Mining Sector

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Remote Access Trojan 'Poco RAT' Targets Mining, Manufacturing Sectors, Says Report A new report published by Cofense Intelligence identifies a malware called "Poco RAT" that is actively targeting mining and manufacturing sectors across Latin America through a simple remote access Trojan that could be capable of delivering additional malware for ransomware (..)

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Google Removes Fake Crypto-Mining Apps

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Researchers Say Users Paid Fees for Fake Mining Services Google has removed eight fake crypto-mining apps from its Play Store, but security researchers have flagged 120 similar apps still available on the store, according to Trend Micro. Users paid for services the eight apps never delivered.

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Is Cryptocurrency-Mining Malware Due for a Comeback?

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But if the viability of ransomware as a criminal business model should decline, expect those attackers to quickly embrace something else, such as illicitly mining for cryptocurrency. The world is now focused on ransomware, perhaps more so than any previous cybersecurity threat in history.

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Monetizing Analytics Features: Why Data Visualizations Will Never Be Enough

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your embedded analytics. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.

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Malicious Docker Images Used to Mine Monero

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Images on Docker Hub Contained Cryptominers A recently uncovered cryptomining scheme used malicious Docker images to hijack organizations’ computing resources to mine cryptocurrency, according to the cybersecurity firm Aqua Security.

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Monero Mining Botnet Targets PostgreSQL Database Servers

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Researchers: 'PGMiner' Malware Uses Brute-Force Methods to Guess Passwords Researchers with Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 are tracking a relatively new cryptomining botnet called "PGMiner," which is targeting PostgreSQL database servers to illegally mine for monero. Currently, the malware only targets Linux-based database servers.

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