Security Affairs

JUNE 9, 2021

Microsoft uncovered a malicious campaign targeting Kubeflow workloads to deploy TensorFlow pods that are used to mine cryptocurrency. Microsoft researchers uncovered a malicious campaign targeting Kubeflow workloads to deploy TensorFlow pods that are used to mine for cryptocurrency. GCP, CPU) prior to start the mining activity.

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Data Breach Today

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Security of Code Pushed by Content Delivery Networks Remains Ongoing Concern More than 4,200 websites, some belonging to the U.S., and Australian governments, have been turning their visitors' computers into mining machines to harvest the virtual currency Monero.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 3, 2023

The Canadian Copper Mountain Mining Corporation (CMMC) was hit with a ransomware attack that impacted its operations. The Canadian Copper Mountain Mining Corporation (CMMC) announced to have suffered a ransomware attack late on December 27, 2022, which impacted its operation. . Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, CMMC ).

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Security Affairs

MARCH 8, 2021

Experts warn of ongoing attacks targeting QNAP network-attached storage (NAS) devices to abuse them in cryptocurrency mining. The mining program is composed of unity_install.sh In January, the Taiwanese vendor QNAP published a security advisory to warn customers of a new piece of malware named Dovecat that was targeting NAS devices.

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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. It’s likely IT and security teams won’t find the infection for months.

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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. Bilogorskiy.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 15, 2023

CrowdStrike researchers discovered the first-ever cryptocurrency mining campaign aimed at Dero mining since February 2023. The mining efforts by the pods are contributed back to a community pool, which distributes the reward (i.e., Dero coin) equally among its contributors through their digital wallet.”

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Data Breach Today

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Wave of Attacks Affects ShellBot, Tsunami, ChinaZ DDoS Bot and XMRig CoinMiner Hackers are targeting Linux Secure Shell servers to install tools for port scanning and dictionary attacks to compromise other vulnerable servers, forming a network for cryptocurrency mining and distributed denial-of-service attacks, say researchers at AhnLab Security Emergency (..)

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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? A Tennessee hospital may be the first victim in the sector, and some security experts predict many more such incidents. Are More Healthcare Sector Entities at Risk?

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2022

Many readers were surprised to learn recently that the popular Norton 360 antivirus suite now ships with a program which lets customers make money mining virtual currency. KG is a German multinational software company best known for their Avira Free Security (a.k.a. Avira Crypto. Founded in 2006, Avira Operations GmbH & Co.

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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. “Blue Mockingbird is the name we’ve given to a cluster of similar activity we’ve observed involving Monero cryptocurrency-mining payloads in dynamic-link library (DLL) form on Windows systems.”

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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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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 6, 2022

Norton 360 , one of the most popular antivirus products on the market today, has installed a cryptocurrency mining program on its customers’ computers. According to the FAQ posted on its site , “ Norton Crypto ” will mine Ethereum (ETH) cryptocurrency while the customer’s computer is idle. ” reads a Dec.

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IBM Big Data Hub

MAY 17, 2023

Any issues with these applications can lead to decreased productivity, wasted time and potential security risks. Auto-discovery tools like process mining — a tool gaining popularity with organizations — does just that. Process mining is an ideal solution to start planning for automation.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2018

Specifically, it demonstrates a novel, dynamic and robust operational security model and the ability to detect and attack newly deployed and misconfigured infrastructure. Additionally, the campaign is sophisticated in seeking to detect, analyse and neutralise other competing crypto-mining malware.

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WIRED Threat Level

MARCH 28, 2023

A spy group working for the Kim regime has been feeding stolen coins into crypto mining services in an effort to throw tracers off their trail.

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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.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 5, 2021

The Uptycs Threat Research Team recently observed Golang-based worm dropping cryptominer binaries which use the MSR (Model Specific Register) driver to disable hardware prefetchers and increase the speed of the mining process by 15%. This is done to boost the miner execution performance, thereby increasing the speed of the mining process.

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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.

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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 security incident has happened in July at the South Ukraine Nuclear Power Plant at Yuzhnoukrainsk, in the south of the country. ” reported ZDnet. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Data Breach Today

JANUARY 4, 2021

Researchers Say Recently Uncovered Malware Targets Windows and Linux Researchers at the security firm Intezer have detected a new Golang-based worm that is targeting Windows and Linux servers with monero cryptomining malware.

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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. Ghost is just one of several companies and organizations that have been compromised since the vulnerabilities were disclosed, including LineageOS, an Android-based operating system, and Digicert, a security certificate authority. .

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 28, 2021

However, these attacks aren’t due to exchange security flaws; malicious actors are exploiting the underlying consensus protocols of blockchains themselves. However, there are solutions blockchains can adopt to drastically increase their security without attracting any more mining power.

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Threatpost

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Researchers warn of a spike in the cryptocurrency-mining botnet since August 2020.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 9, 2023

Identity thieves have been exploiting a glaring security weakness in the website of Experian , one of the big three consumer credit reporting bureaus. All that was needed was the person’s name, address, birthday and Social Security number. states to place a security freeze on their credit files.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 27, 2021

Cryptojacking malware allows threat actors to secretly mine for cryptocurrency abusing computational resources of the infected devices. The Intel TDT technology allows sharing heuristics and telemetry with security software that could use this data to detect the activity associated with a malicious code. ” concludes Microsoft.

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Data Breach Today

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Researchers Say Botnet Mines for Cryptocurrency and Sends Spam Security researchers at Imperva have uncovered a botnet that attacks vulnerabilities in websites' underlying content management systems and then uses these compromised servers to mine for cryptocurrency or send spam to more victims.

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Data Breach Today

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Researchers: Malware Leverages Vulnerabilities to Mine Cryptocurrency The Muhstik botnet, which has been operating for at least two years, has recently started targeting vulnerabilities in the Oracle WebLogic application server and the Drupal content management system as a way to expand its cryptocurrency mining capabilities, according to security (..)

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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. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Data Breach Today

JANUARY 16, 2019

Trend Micro Says It Moved Cranes Using RF Software Flaws Radio controllers used in the construction, mining and shipping industries are dangerously vulnerable to hackers, Trend Micro says in a new report.

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Data Breach Today

APRIL 25, 2021

Cybereason Says Russian Hacking Group Prometei is Behind the Campaign A Russian botnet group called Prometei is exploiting critical Microsoft Exchange Server vulnerabilities to mine cryptocurrency from various organizations across the world, a new report by security firm Cybereason finds.

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Data Breach Today

APRIL 26, 2021

Cybereason Says Russian Hacking Group Prometei Is Behind the Campaign A Russian botnet group called Prometei is exploiting critical Microsoft Exchange Server vulnerabilities to mine cryptocurrency across the world, a new report by security firm Cybereason finds.

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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The Atlantic Council has published a report on securing the Internet of Things: “Security in the Billions: Toward a Multinational Strategy to Better Secure the IoT Ecosystem.”

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Security Affairs

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Data Breach Today

JANUARY 21, 2023

Crypto Mining Campaign Targets Public Cloud Environments, Increases Security Risks Cybersecurity researchers say a Chinese for-profit threat group tracked as 8220 Gang is targeting cloud providers and poorly secured applications with a custom-built crypto miner and IRC bot.

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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. org is in this blacklist and it is known that Rocke Group has used this domain for their crypto-mining operations. ” continues the report. Pierluigi Paganini.

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KnowBe4

JUNE 28, 2023

In the most recent Cyber Threat report from the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), it is clear that UK law firms are a gold mine for cybercriminals.

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