Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2024

Security experts at Deep Instinct Threat Lab have uncovered a targeted campaign against Ukraine, exploiting a Microsoft Office vulnerability dating back almost seven years to deploy Cobalt Strike on compromised systems. It’s a PPSX file, seemingly an outdated US Army manual for tank mine clearing blades (MCB).

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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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Adam Levin

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

A federal appellate court ruled that mining and aggregating user data publicly posted to social media sites is allowable by law. LinkedIn sent a cease-and-desist letter to hiQ in 2017 requesting that the company stop accessing and copying data from its servers.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

PaloAlto Network warns of the WatchDog botnet that uses exploits to take over Windows and Linux servers and mine cryptocurrency. Security researchers at Palo Alto Networks uncovered a cryptojacking botnet, tracked as WatchDog, that is targeting Windows and Linux systems. Oracle WebLogic Server CVE-2017-10271 – versions 10.3.6.0.0,

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Security Affairs

JUNE 13, 2021

Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box. The post Security Affairs newsletter Round 318 appeared first on Security Affairs. A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! If you want to also receive for free the international press subscribe here.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Further analysis revealed that the malware has been used since at least 2017. Kaspersky discovered that the detections between 2017 and 2022 had previously misclassified as a cryptocurrency miner. Kaspersky researchers discovered that over one million updates have been downloaded from the C2 infrastructure since 2017.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

“They induced victims to enter into fraudulent equipment rental contracts with the defendants’ cryptocurrency mining service called HashFlare. The bad news for the investors is that HashFlare did not have the virtual currency mining equipment it claimed to have. ” reads the press release published by DoJ.

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Dark Reading

MARCH 22, 2018

Symantec's annual Internet Security Threat Report also shows that zero-day exploits fizzled and cryptocurrency mining exploded.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The Windows botnet has been active since late 2017, it was mainly used to mine cryptocurrency, but it was also involved in DDoS attacks in 2018. ” reads the alert published by CERT-UA. Experts defined DirtyMoe as a complex malware that has been designed as a modular system.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

The Chaos malware supports more than 70 different commands, including executing propagation through the exploitation of pre-determined CVEs, launching DDoS attacks or starting crypto mining. Some samples analyzed by the experts were able to exploit the CVE-2017-17215 and CVE-2022-30525 , respectively impacting Huawei and Zyxel devices.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 16, 2023

” Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, DarkGate ) The post DarkGate malware campaign abuses Skype and Teams appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added Looney Tunables Linux vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. Multiple security researchers have already developed their own proof-of-concept exploits for this flaw. while processing the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2019

Security experts uncovered a new cryptojacking campaign tracked as Beapy that leverages the NSA’s DoublePulsar backdoor and the EternalBlue exploit. “In the web server compromise, Beapy also attempted to exploit an Apache Struts vulnerability ( CVE-2017-5638 ). ” reads the analysis published Symantec.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 5, 2018

A security researcher discovered a new crypto mining worm dubbed ZombieBoy that leverages several exploits to evade detection. The security researcher James Quinn has spotted a new strain of crypto mining worm dubbed ZombieBoy that appears to be very profitable and leverages several exploits to evade detection.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2020

Cybersecurity experts at CyberNews hijacked close to 28,000 unsecured printers worldwide and forced them to print out a guide on printer security. Most of us already know the importance of using antivirus , anti-malware, and VPNs to secure our computers, phones, and other devices against potential attacks. Original post: [link].

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

Researchers are cloud security firm Aqua have observed threat actors exploiting the recently disclosed Linux privilege escalation flaw Looney Tunables in attacks against cloud environments. Kinsing actors often exploited the PHPUnit vulnerability ( CVE-2017-9841 ) and it engaged in fully automated attacks as part of mining cryptocurrency.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Security experts at Symantec have discovered eight potentially unwanted applications (PUAs) into the Microsoft Store that were dropping cryptojacking Coinhive miners. “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.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 31, 2021

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. ” If you want to receive the weekly Security Affairs Newsletter for free subscribe here. .

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 28, 2019

This variant of Xbash is equipped to quietly uninstall any one of five popular types of cloud security protection and monitoring products used on such servers. The end game for this particular hacking ring is to install crypto currency mining routines on compromised Linux servers. Secure your phone. Targeting one device.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 4, 2021

Talos experts noticed that a version released on May 18 included Python versions of EternalBlue ( CVE-2017-0144 ) and EternalRomance ( CVE-2017-0147 ) exploits with a Windows download command line as the payload. The post Necro Python bot now enhanced with new VMWare, server exploits appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

“Everyone thinks their data is the messiest in the world, and mine maybe is because it’s taken from people who don’t want us to have it, frankly,” said Herrera’s immediate predecessor at the NSA, the computer scientist Deborah Frincke, during a 2017 talk at Stanford.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Security experts from IBM are targeting Drupal vulnerabilities, including the CVE-2018-7600 and CVE-2018-7602 flaws, aka Drupalgeddon2 and Drupalgeddon3 , to install a backdoor on the infected systems and tack full control of the hosted platforms. Security Affairs – Drupal, hacking ). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 22, 2021

The Windows botnet has been active since late 2017, it was mainly used to mine cryptocurrency, but it was also involved in DDoS attacks in 2018. The post DirtyMoe botnet infected 100,000+ Windows systems in H1 2021 appeared first on Security Affairs. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

All too many companies lack a full appreciation of how vital it has become to proactively manage and keep secure “unstructured data.”. Structured data can be human- or machine-generated, and is easily searchable information usually stored in a database, including names, Social Security numbers, phone numbers, ZIP codes.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 21, 2022

The Windows botnet has been active since late 2017, it was mainly used to mine cryptocurrency, but it was also involved in DDoS attacks in 2018. The post DirtyMoe modules expand the bot using worm-like techniques appeared first on Security Affairs. ” Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 5, 2019

Security experts at Trend Micro have discovered a new Monero cryptomining miner, dubbed BlackSquid, that is targeting web servers, network drives, and removable drives. “Simultaneous with its attacks, BlackSquid also downloads and executes two XMRig cryptocurrency-mining components.! continues the analysis. Pierluigi Paganini.

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The Security Ledger

JUNE 29, 2020

In this episode of the podcast (#186) we do a deep dive on the new IoT cyber security rating system from Underwriters' Lab. We talk with experts from GE about the process they used to obtain UL certification for a range of smart home appliances, managing device security over the decades and how a cyber security rating system may influence.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 13, 2019

Security experts at 360 Total Security have discovered a new modular cryptocurrency malware that implements worm capabilities to spread. “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 ?

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Security experts spotted a new botnet, tracked as KashmirBlack botnet, that likely infected hundreds of thousands of websites since November 2019. 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.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Since the beginning of the year, security firms observed a new intense ransomware campaign spreading the Shade ransomware. Between January and February, a new, intense, ransomware campaign has been observed by many security firms. Comparison between the ransom note of Shade 2019 (up) and Shade 2017 (down, source: SonicWall ).

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 28, 2020

Security researchers from Sophos have spotted a new variant of the Lemon_Duck cryptomining malware that has been updated to compromise Linux machines via SSH brute force attacks. “This aspect of the campaign expands the mining operation to support computers running Linux. ” reads the post published by Sophos.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

A security firm has discovered that a six-year-old crafty botnet known as Mylobot appears to be powering a residential proxy service called BHProxies , which offers paying customers the ability to route their web traffic anonymously through compromised computers. The BHProxies website. “Hey mate, it’s been a long time.

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InfoGovNuggets

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

“ Indian Lenders Mine Phone Data,” The Wall Street Journal , November 24, 2017 B10. What’s more private, your phone or your Social Security Number? Lenders fill gap in credit histories by checking data on phones to track Facebook connections and on-line shopping.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Security experts from Kaspersky have published an interesting report on the new trends in the IoT threat landscape. In the first six months of 2018, the experts observed a number of malware samples that was up three times as many samples targeting IoT devices as in the whole of 2017. In 2017 there were ten times more than in 2016.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

In February 2018, researchers from Proofpoint discovered a huge botnet dubbed ‘Smominru’ that was using the EternalBlue exploit to infect Windows computers and recruit them in Monero cryptocurrency mining activities. The post Smominru Botnet continues to rapidly spread worldwide appeared first on Security Affairs. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 31, 2022

In early 2013, researchers at Rapid7 published an interesting whitepaper entitled “Security Flaws in Universal Plug and Play” that evaluated the global exposure of UPnP-enabled network devices. appeared first on Security Affairs. The UPnP communication protocol is widely adopted even if it is known to be vulnerable.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 12, 2020

Postal Service, the credit bureaus or the Social Security Administration, it’s a good idea to do so for several reasons. Adding multi-factor authentication (MFA) at these various providers (where available) and/or establishing a customer-specific personal identification number (PIN) also can help secure online access.

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