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Vollgar botnet has managed to infect around 3k MSSQL DB servers daily

Security Affairs

Cybersecurity researchers spotted a crypto-mining botnet, tracked as Vollgar, that has been hijacking MSSQL servers since at least 2018. Researchers at Guardicore Labs discovered a crypto-mining botnet , tracked as Vollgar botnet , that is targeting MSSQL databases since 2018. and Windows Script Host Object Model (wshom).

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Guy Fawkes Day – LulzSec Italy hit numerous organizations in Italy

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Italian Military Personnel and National Association of Professional Educators. Italian Military Personnel and National Association of Professional Educators. National Mining Office for Hydrocarbons & Geo-resources. National Association of Professional Educators. Exposed in the Hack: National Research Center.

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Steelcase office furniture giant hit by Ryuk ransomware attack

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Steelcase is a US-based furniture company that produces office furniture, architectural and technology products for office environments and the education, health care and retail industries. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. It is the largest office furniture manufacturer in the world.

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Access to over 3,000 compromised sites sold on Russian black marketplace MagBo

Security Affairs

Most of the compromised websites are e-commerce sites, but crooks also offered access to websites of organizations in healthcare, legal, education and insurance industries and belonging to government agencies. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Russian, or German hosting services. .

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FritzFrog cryptocurrency P2P botnet targets Linux servers over SSH

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The bot is written in Golang and implements wormable capabilities, experts reported attacks against entities in government, education, and finance sectors. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Flaws in Social Warfare plugin actively exploited in the wild

Security Affairs

Experts pointed out that attackers can exploit the vulnerabilities to take complete control over websites and servers and use them for malicious purposed, such as mining cryptocurrency or deliver malware. ” ~ Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. ” concludes PaloAlto Network.

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10 Personal Finance Lessons for Technology Professionals

Troy Hunt

Number 1 is "Mining, Resources & Energy" which had a local boom here but is now rapidly declining (down 14% on the previous year). Take mining out of the picture and the top industry ("Consulting & Strategy"), pays only 5% more than tech. and invariably the answer is always that we couldn't have: the job would have gone.

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