Security Affairs

JULY 28, 2018

Google has updated the Play Store Developer Policy page to ban mobile mining apps that mine cryptocurrencies using the computational resources of the devices. “We don’t allow apps that mine cryptocurrency on devices,” reads the entry included in the policy. Securi ty Affairs – mining apps, Google).

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FEBRUARY 18, 2021

PaloAlto Network warns of the WatchDog botnet that uses exploits to take over Windows and Linux servers and mine cryptocurrency. 27, 2019 and already mined at least 209 Monero (XMR), valued to be around $32,056 USD. Elasticsearch CVE-2015-1427 (Elasticsearch sandbox evasion – version before 1.3.8 Drupal Versions 7 and 8.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

A threat actor is launching brute-force attacks on MSSQL servers in the attempt to access them to install a new crypto-mining malware dubbed MrbMiner. A group of hackers is launching brute-force attacks on MSSQL servers with the intent to compromise them and install crypto-mining malware dubbed MrbMiner. Mining process.”

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2023

[This is Part III in a series on research conducted for a recent Hulu documentary on the 2015 hack of marital infidelity website AshleyMadison.com.] The CEO’s leaked emails show Eric Malek resigned from his developer position at Ashley Madison on June 19, 2015 — just four days before Bloom would announce his departure.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 11, 2018

Group-IB is recording new outbreaks of illegal mining (cryptojacking) threats in the networks of commercial and state organizations. Group-IB, an international company specializing in the prevention of cyberattacks, is recording new outbreaks of illegal mining (cryptojacking) threats in the networks of commercial and state organizations.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 7, 2020

Computer systems at EVRAZ, a multinational vertically integrated steel making and mining company, have been hit by Ryuk ransomware. EVRAZ is one of the world’s largest multinational vertically integrated steel making and mining companies with headquarters in London. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, EVRAZ).

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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

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

The malware uses the victim’s resource to mine cryptocurrency, steals cryptocurrency wallet-related files, and replaces wallet addresses in the clipboard to hijack cryptocurrency payments. Both of these programs are set up to connect to an operator-controlled mining server over the Tor proxy.” ” reads the report.

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Security Affairs

JULY 24, 2018

.” The binary establishes a connection to the C&C server, then scans processes running on the compromised device and attempts to kill any that are running the CoinHive script that could be mining Monero. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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AUGUST 18, 2020

The TeamTNT botnet is a crypto-mining malware operation that has been active since April and that targets Docker installs. “Over the weekend we’ve seen a crypto-mining worm spread that steals AWS credentials. Review network traffic for any connections to mining pools, or using the Stratum mining protocol.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Security experts from Akamai have spotted a new botnet used for illicit cryptocurrency mining activities that are abusing Bitcoin (BTC) transactions to implement a backup mechanism for C2. The operators of a long-running crypto-mining botnet campaign began creatively disguising their backup C2 IP address on the Bitcoin blockchain.”

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Security Affairs

APRIL 27, 2020

The VictoryGate bot propagates via infected USB devices, it was designed to mine Monero abusing resourced of compromised devices, it is also able to deliver additional payloads. The malware uses a stratum/XMRig proxy to hide the mining pool and terminates the mining process when the user opens Task Manager, to avoid to show the CPU usage.

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Security Affairs

JULY 29, 2020

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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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

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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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

“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. The mining script then gets activated and begins using the majority of the computer’s CPU cycles to mine Monero for the operators.” Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 1, 2020

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. ” conclude the experts. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 1, 2019

“The script then calls a Monero coin-mining binary, darwin (detected as PUA.Linux.XMRMiner.AA), to run in the background. As with all cryptocurrency miners, it uses the resources of the host system to mine cryptocurrency (Monero in this instance) without the owner’s knowledge.” ” continues the report.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 14, 2018

Earlier August, experts uncovered a massive crypto jacking campaign that was targeting MikroTik routers to inject a Coinhive cryptocurrency mining script in the web traffic. In September thousands of unpatched MikroTik Routers were involved in new cryptocurrency mining campaigns. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2020

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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APRIL 30, 2020

The campaign primarily targets users in Spain and South American countries, aims to launch a coin-mining shellcode directly in memory. The in-memory DLL then injects a coin-mining code into notepad.exe through process hollowing. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

A new cryptocurrency-mining botnet tracked as WatchBog is heavily using the Pastebin service for command and control (C&C) operations. Cisco Talos researchers discovered a new cryptocurrency -mining botnet tracked as WatchBog is heavily using the Pastebin service for command and control. ” continues Talos. Pierluigi Paganini.

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OCTOBER 26, 2020

The primary purpose of the KashmirBlack botnet is to abuse resources of compromised systems for cryptocurrency mining and redirecting a site’s legitimate traffic to spam pages. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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AUGUST 8, 2019

Avast spotted a new strain of Clipsa malware that is used to mine and steal cryptocurrencies along with carrying out brute-force attacks on WordPress sites. Clipsa is a malware that is well known to cyber security community is able to steal cryptocurrency via clipoard hijacking and mine cryptocurrency after installing a miner. .

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

National Mining Office for Hydrocarbons & Geo-resources. Brian Dunn is a writer & researcher formally working as a content specialist for AnonHQ throughout 2015-2016. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. National Research Center’s Public Relations Office.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 8, 2020

A few days ago EVRAZ , one of the world’s largest multinational vertically integrated steel making and mining companies, has been hit by the Ryuk ransomware. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 23, 2020

A few days before, EVRAZ , one of the world’s largest multinational vertically integrated steel making and mining companies, has been hit by the Ryuk ransomware. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 28, 2018

Earlier this year Sysdig and Aqua Security researchers started observing cyber attacks targeting Kubernets and Docker instances aimed at mining Monero cryptocurrency. Miscreants can abuse Docker Engine API to deploy containers they have created with the specific intent of mining cryptocurrencies. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 14, 2019

The two men also advertised fraud using email accounts created using the stolen credentials on behalf of the victims, mined cryptocurrency and stole money and cryptocurrency through credit card fraud. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. The defendants would then steal account credentials.

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MARCH 13, 2019

“Recently, 360 Total Security team intercepted a new worm PsMiner written in Go, which uses CVE-2018-1273, CVE-2017-10271, CVE-2015-1427, CVE-2014-3120 and other high-risk vulnerabilities ? The final stage payload is the open source Xmrig CPU miner that allows PSMiner to mine for Monero cryptocurrency.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

“We recently encountered a cryptocurrency-mining malware (detected by Trend Micro as Coinminer.Linux.KORKERDS.AB) affecting Linux systems,” reads the report published by TrendMicro. . “The rootkit component of the cryptocurrency-mining malware is a slightly modified/repurposed version of a publicly available code.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 11, 2020

” Hackers are targeting Kubernetes clusters because nodes used from ML operations have huge computational capabilies making them ideal for fraudulent mining purposes. This fact makes Kubernetes clusters that are used for ML tasks a perfect target for crypto mining campaigns, which was the aim of this attack.”

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 28, 2019

The Retadup bot has been around since at least 2015, it was involved in several malicious campaigns aimed at delivering malware such as information stealers, ransomware and miners. Since it was the C&C server’s responsibility to give mining jobs to the bots, none of the bots received any new mining jobs to execute after this takedown.”

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JULY 25, 2019

Experts at Intezer researchers have spotted a strain of the Linux mining that also scans the Internet for Windows RDP servers vulnerable to the Bluekeep. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. ” reads a blog post published by Intezer. ” reads a blog post published by Intezer.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 4, 2019

The service creates multiple threads to carry out several malicious activities, such as data exfiltration and mining. The updated miner is injected into the svchost.exe to start crypto-mining, if the injection fails, the service writes the miner to %systemroot%system32TrustedHostex.exe and launches it. then it deletes itself.

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MAY 4, 2020

“All traces of the crypto-mining virus were successfully eliminated yesterday, all systems remain stable, and we have not discovered any further concerns or issues on our network. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. This affects both Ghost(Pro) sites and Ghost.org billing services.”

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JUNE 8, 2020

mining social media accounts where the victim use the same profile picture). 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. SecurityAffairs – Whatsapp, privacy).

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JUNE 15, 2020

and Italy hosting Android and cryptocurrency mining malware.” Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. . “It [198.13.49[.]179] 179] resolves to three domains, the third one being connected to other servers in the U.S. ” reported BleepingComputer.

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