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Blue Mockingbird Monero-Mining campaign targets web apps

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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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A backdoor mechanism found in tens of Ruby libraries

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Maintainers of the RubyGems package repository have removed 18 malicious versions of 11 Ruby libraries that contained a backdoor. Maintainers of the RubyGems package repository have discovered a backdoor mechanism in 18 malicious versions of 11 Ruby libraries. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. .

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Hackers target Docker servers to deploy the new Kinsing cryptocurrency miner

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Experts uncovered a hacking campaign that is breaching Docker clusters to deploy a new crypto-mining malware tracked as Kinsing. ” The Kinsing malware abuses the resources of the Docker installations to mine cryptocurrency, hackers exploit unprotected open Docker API port to instantiate an Ubuntu container. “The spre.

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Cryptojacking Coinhive Miners for the first time found on the Microsoft Store

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The malicious Monero (XMR) Coinhive cryptomining scripts were delivered leveraging the Google’s legitimate Google Tag Manager (GTM) library. “As soon as the apps are downloaded and launched, they fetch a coin-mining JavaScript library by triggering Google Tag Manager (GTM) in their domain servers. Pierluigi Paganini.

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TeamTNT group adds new detection evasion tool to its Linux miner

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The TeamTNT botnet is a crypto-mining malware operation that has been active since April 2020 and that targets Docker installs. The libprocesshider open-source tool is available on Github since 2014 and is able to “hide a process under Linux using the ld preloader.”

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Doki, an undetectable Linux backdoor targets Docker Servers

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The ongoing Ngrok mining botnet campaign is targeting servers are hosted on popular cloud platforms, including Alibaba Cloud, Azure, and AWS. “ Ngrok Mining Botnet is an active campaign targeting exposed Docker servers in AWS, Azure, and other cloud platforms. .” ” continues the report. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Other 3,700 MikroTik Routers compromised in cryptoJacking campaigns

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Thousands of unpatched MikroTik Routers are involved in new cryptocurrency mining campaigns. Thousands of unpatched devices are mining for cryptocurrency at the moment. Now the researcher Troy Mursch noticed that the infected MikroTik routers from the latest campaign open a websockets tunnel to a web browser mining script.

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