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Hackers targeting Drupal vulnerabilities to install the Shellbot Backdoor

Security Affairs

Experts pointed out that the Shellbot code first appeared in 2005 and is being used by several threat groups, it was also used in the massive crypto-mining campaign that was exploiting the CVE-2017-5638 Apache Struts vulnerability (CVE-2017-5638) in March 2017. “

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Outlaw is Back, a New Crypto-Botnet Targets European Organizations

Security Affairs

Shellbot is known since 2005 and even available on GitHub. This directory contains the crypto mining module named kswapd0. This component has two main functions: Install a cryptoMiner worker: The main purpose of this elf file is the instantiation of a crypto-mining worker. The first folder to analyze is “a”.

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The Book Lives On

John Battelle's Searchblog

I also mentioned that the projects I’d been working on – notably OpenCo and The Book , would have to be retooled given my new commitment to the company I started back in 2005 (when I last wrote a book). In the post, I wrote: I love the book I’m working on, and I don’t plan to abandon it (I’m bringing on a co-author).

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Attacks against machine learning — an overview

Elie

A very recent example of such behavior is the rise of abusing cloud services such as Google Cloud to mine cryptocurrencies in response to the surge of bitcoin price late 2017. skyrocketed past $10,000, we saw a surge of new attacks that attempted to steal Google cloud compute resources to mine. bitcoin prices.

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Attacks against machine learning — an overview

Elie

A very recent example of such behavior is the rise of abusing cloud services such as Google Cloud to mine cryptocurrencies in response to the surge of bitcoin price late 2017. skyrocketed past $10,000, we saw a surge of new attacks that attempted to steal Google cloud compute resources to mine. bitcoin prices.

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This is the old ChiefTech blog.: Enterprise Web 2.0 inside CSC

ChiefTech

experiences , its only fair I talk about mine: There are three enterprise level wiki experiments Im aware of at CSC (there could be more, and I believe there are some project or team related wikis around). Monday, 27 August 2007 Enterprise Web 2.0 inside CSC Since Im asking fellow Aussies to share their Enterprise 2.0 and Enterprise Web 2.0

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This is the old ChiefTech blog.: From ODBC to Mashing

ChiefTech

Tuesday, 5 June 2007 From ODBC to Mashing Mark Bower has written a couple of interesting posts about the origins of mashing, the first referencing a earlier post of mine about spreadsheets. Please seek advice for specific circumstances. Bower says: " James Dellow wrote last week on spreadsheets as an early mashup tool.

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