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Will cryptocurrency mining soon saturate AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud?

The Last Watchdog

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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Russia-linked APT28 and crooks are still using the Moobot botnet

Security Affairs

The Moobot botnet has been active since at least 2016, it also includes other routers and virtual private servers (VPS). Pawn Storm most likely easily brute forced the credentials of the backdoored SSH servers and thus gained access to a pool of EdgeRouter devices they could abuse for various purposes.”

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Know your rights: the key to eBook access

CILIP

Know your rights: the key to eBook access. Away from issues of undermining access to the work of authors, it also doesn?t The final 2016 verdict was in favour of VOB. So, for text and data mining and analytics using AI, the government still can?t t intervene to allow data mining of Pearson books if Pearson had said no.

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ExCobalt Cybercrime group targets Russian organizations in multiple sectors

Security Affairs

Members of the ExCobalt group have been active since at least 2016, the researchers believe that the group is linked to the notorious Cobalt Gang. ExCobalt gained initial access to target entities by taking advantage of a previously compromised contractor.

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WeLeakInfo Leaked Customer Payment Info

Krebs on Security

com , a wildly popular service that sold access to more than 12 billion usernames and passwords stolen from thousands of hacked websites. In an ironic turn of events, a lapsed domain registration tied to WeLeakInfo let someone plunder and publish account data on 24,000 customers who paid to access the service with a credit card.

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New Pro-Ocean crypto-miner targets Apache ActiveMQ, Oracle WebLogic, and Redis installs

Security Affairs

The new malware implement new and improved rootkit and worm capabilities, it continues to target cloud applications by exploiting known vulnerabilities such as Oracle WebLogic ( CVE-2017-10271 ) and Apache ActiveMQ ( CVE-2016-3088 ) servers. Disable the iptables firewall so that the malware will have full access to the internet.

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Happy 13th Birthday, KrebsOnSecurity!

Krebs on Security

Several strong themes emerged from 2022’s crop of breaches, including the targeting or impersonating of employees to gain access to internal company tools; multiple intrusions at the same victim company; and less-than-forthcoming statements from victim firms about what actually transpired. com, which was fed by pig butchering scams.

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