Security Affairs

OCTOBER 15, 2019

In addition to the C2 change, functionality was also added to their LSD malware to exploit ActiveMQ servers vulnerable to CVE-2016-3088.” The group also improved its LSD dropper by adding the malicious code to exploit CVE-2016-3088 in ActiveMQ servers. SecurityAffairs – Rocke cybercrime gang, mine r ).

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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. Italian Military Personnel and National Association of Professional Educators. National Research Center’s Public Relations Office.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 24, 2024

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. Positive Technologies researchers reported that a cybercrime gang called ExCobalt targeted Russian organizations in multiple sectors with a previously unknown Golang-based backdoor known as GoRed.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 11, 2023

The crypto-mining botnet has a modular structure and employs multiple techniques to infect systems and evade detection. A deep investigation on artifacts uploaded on VirusTotal allowed the experts to determine that the botnet may have been active at least since May 2016. Russia only accounted for 0.31

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

The Iron cybercrime group has been active since at least 2016, is known for the Iron ransomware but across the years it is built various strain of malware, including backdoors, cryptocurrency miners, and ransomware to target both mobile and desktop systems. . ActiveMQ arbitrary file write vulnerability , CVE-2016-3088.”

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

174 Linux cryptominer uses one of two privilege escalation exploits CVE-2016-5195 (aka Dirty COW) and CVE-2013-2094 to get root permissions on the infected system. downloads and starts its own Monero-mining operation. The Linux.BtcMine.174 Then the Linux.BtcMine.174. Linux.BtcMine.174

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Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2021

A deep investigation on artifacts uploaded on VirusTotal allowed the experts to determine that the botnet may have been active at least since May 2016. The crypto-mining has a modular structure and employes multiple techniques to infect systems and evade detection. ” reads the analysis published by Cybereason.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

In 2017 there were ten times more than in 2016. “More and more exploits are being weaponized by cybercriminals, and infected devices are used to steal personal data and mine cryptocurrencies, on top of traditional DDoS attacks. Experts highlighted that IoT malware is increasing both in quantity and quality.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 3, 2019

CoinHive Cryptocurrency Mining Service will shut down on March 8, 2019. Only now we known that International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) was hacked in 2016. Cyber Command disrupted blocked Russian troll factory during 2018 midterms. Cisco WebEx Meetings affected by a new elevation of privilege flaw.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 6, 2018

BlackEnergy is considered the key element in the attack aimed at Ukrainian power grid in 2015 and 2016 , it was also involved in attacks against mining and railway systems in the country.

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Security Affairs

MAY 29, 2019

The payloads used in this campaign were droppers used to deliver a cryptocurrency miner to mine TurtleCoin cryptocurrency. The compile time for these files suggests that it had been created in 2016, but most AV engines still not detect them as malicious. ” concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

MAY 19, 2019

Pacha Group declares war to rival crypto mining hacking groups. Chinese state-sponsored hackers breached TeamViewer in 2016. Facebook sues data analytics firm Rankwave over alleged data misuse. Over 10k+ GPS trackers could be abused to spy on individuals in the UK. Reading the Yoroi Cyber Security Annual Report 2018.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 15, 2021

24, 2016 with the domain registrar Dynadot. The biggest potential gold mine for de-anonymizing Maza members is the leak of user numbers for ICQ, an instant messaging service formerly owned by AOL that was widely used by cybercrime forum members up until around 2010. How WeLeakInfo stacked up against its competitors (according to WLI).

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Security Affairs

JULY 29, 2018

“Underminer delivers a bootkit that infects the system’s boot sectors as well as a cryptocurrency-mining malware named Hidden Mellifera.” CVE-2016-0189 , a memory corruption vulnerability in Internet Explorer (IE) patched in May 2016. ” reads the analysis published by TrendMicro.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

The Russian government has already blocked the p rofessional social network L inkedIn in 2016 under the data-localization legislation. “You can bypass bans, but if the company works [in Russia], it’ll have to pay,” Deputy Communications Minister Alexei Volin told the state-run TASS news agency Thursday.

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The Guardian Data Protection

JUNE 11, 2018

Case filed in a Mississippi court alleges data mined in UK was illegally sent abroad by two of Banks’s companies A British public interest group has filed a lawsuit in a Mississippi court against two companies controlled by Arron Banks, the pro-Brexit donor, following allegations that the firms may have violated UK data protection rules in an attempt (..)

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Krebs on Security

JULY 30, 2019

The complaint doesn’t explicitly name the cloud hosting provider from which the Capital One credit data was taken, but it does say the accused’s resume states that she worked as a systems engineer at the provider between 2015 and 2016.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Matthew Filbert, in 2016. Upon release from prison, Skorjanc became chief technology officer for NiceHash , a cryptocurrency mining service. Helpfully, an email address and nickname apparently connected to the accused offer some additional clues. authorities dubbed “Project CODA.”

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 28, 2019

Three years later, October 2016, a DDoS attack, dubbed Mirai, topped 600 gigabytes per second while taking aim at the website of cybersecurity journalist Brian Krebs. They are also extending their malicious activities beyond DDoS attacks to also spread ransomware, crypto mine and burrow deep into large enterprises.

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Hunton Privacy

MAY 31, 2017

On May 26, 2017, the Belgian Privacy Commission (the “Belgian DPA”) published its Annual Activity Report for 2016 (the “Annual Report”) highlighting its main accomplishments from the past year. In 2016, the Belgian DPA focused on the following topics: EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”). Anti-terrorism. Facebook case.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

The most recent Troldesh campaigns show that it now does not just encrypt files, but also can mine cryptocurrency and generate phony traffic on websites to increase revenue from ad-fraud ( [link] ). RTM first appeared in 2016 and attracted attention as its C&C was a LiveJournal (Russian social networking service) page.

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Troy Hunt

MAY 15, 2020

It's about a data breach with almost 90GB of personal information in it across tens of millions of records - including mine. Met at the 6th National Pro Bono Conference in Ottawa in September 2016 Met on 15-17 October 2001 in Vancouver for the Luscar/Obed/Coal Valley arbitration. It feels like a CRM.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 1, 2019

SOAR, if you haven’t heard, is a hot new technology stack that takes well-understood data mining and business intelligence analytics methodologies — techniques that are deeply utilized in financial services, retailing and other business verticals – and applies them to cybersecurity. Demisto launched in May 2016. Smart money.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

You just knew 2022 was going to be The Year of Crypto Grift when two of the world’s most popular antivirus makers — Norton and Avira — kicked things off by installing cryptocurrency mining programs on customer computers. ” The employees who kept things running for RSOCKS, circa 2016. In 2016, while the U.S.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

During 2016, 39 states were hacked. This makes government networks even more vulnerable and hackers see them as a gold mine. At least one state saw an attempt to delete voter rolls; other states discovered their election websites were hacked. Attackers are profit minded,” says Ananth.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Bitcoin mining, for instance, is a contest to solve a difficult cryptographic puzzle in order to earn the right to add the next block of validated ledger entries to the historical chain of ledger blocks. “You You still need to add an engine and a number of different things to make it fully functional.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 28, 2022

” In a March 2016 post to CPAElites, Acidut said they had a worthwhile offer for people involved in pay-per-install or “PPI” schemes , which match criminal gangs who pay for malware installs with enterprising hackers looking to sell access to compromised PCs and websites. .”

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

I first spoke to Kumar Saurabh, LogicHub’s co-founder and CEO, not long after the company launched in 2016. Stuck in a rut Enter SOAR, which takes well-understood data mining and business intelligence analytics methodologies and applies them to cybersecurity. based LogicHub. billion, and later co-founded SumoLogic.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

This week, we discuss new reports from Cisco, McAfee and the CSIS, and Big Brother Watch, and hear more about malicious Monero mining. trillion in 2016 – cybercrime can be viewed as a 14% tax on growth”. I neglected to reveal the sum the criminals managed to mine in the few hours before they were detected. It was a paltry $24.

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Storm-0324 malware distributor targets victims via Teams Microsoft reports that a threat actor identified as Storm-0324, who has been associated with email phishing campaigns since at least 2016, has been sending phishing lures via Teams since July 2023.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2023

” By the beginning of 2016, Bloom was nowhere to be found, and was suspected of having fled his country for the Caribbean, according to the people commenting on the Near Reality Facebook page: “Jordan aka Agentjags has gone missing,” wrote a presumed co-owner of the Facebook page. “He is supposedly hiding in St. .”

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 11, 2018

In this case, it looks as though the attackers had been on the Starwood network for somewhere around three years, mining out their reservations database (keep in mind that Marriott only acquired Starwood in 2016 ). Since in Tech we often travel “for a living”, I found in my bag an older Starwood preferred guest card. Not used in years.

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Ascent Innovations

MAY 17, 2018

The new cyber intelligence report expects the monetary benefits will allure the use of crypto-mining malware and cryptocurrencies by cyber attackers this year. State Attackers Moving from Stealing Data to Social Meddling. The cyber state attacker force is growing at an alarming rate. New bad actors. Cyber-social.

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IBM Big Data Hub

APRIL 12, 2022

When I joined IBM in 2016, our business strategy centered on hybrid cloud and AI. We can now mine the capabilities of a data fabric architecture to provide a more positive user experience that gets data into the hands of those who need it most with trust, transparency, and agility. It is an exciting time for the future of data.

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IBM Big Data Hub

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Back in 2016, IBM formed a partnership with ESPN. So we’re also using the natural language processing capability of Watson Discovery to mine insights from millions of blogs, articles and podcasts produced by media experts (see here to learn more ). And no, it’s not because the Giants and IBM are both nicknamed “Big Blue.”

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 1, 2018

" I've just re-read my 2016 retrospective and to the point about progress, I'm pretty stoked about what I've done since then ?? The focus on shorter local trips is more apparent when you see I went from 9 trips in 2016 to 17 trips in 2017. Here's how I feel about 2017: Blogging. Have I Been Pwned (HIBP).

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Rather than dropping ransomware on victims’ machines and hoping they would pay to regain access to their files, cyber criminals were increasingly cutting out the middle man and infecting victims’ machines with software that used their spare processing power to mine for cryptocurrency.

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