The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 3, 2018

Illicit crypto mining is advancing apace. It began when threat actors began stealthily embedding crypto mining functionality into the web browsers of unwitting individuals. Related article: Illicit crypto mining hits cloud services. It’s likely IT and security teams won’t find the infection for months.

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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

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. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Thousands of unpatched MikroTik Routers are involved in new cryptocurrency mining campaigns. The exploit code for the CVE-2018-14847 vulnerabilities is becoming a commodity in the hacking underground, just after its disclosure crooks started using it to compromise MikroTik routers. Summarizing, more than 370,000 of 1.2

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 21, 2018

2018 was the year of the Internet of Things (IoT), massive attacks and various botnets hit smart devices, These are 5 IoT Security Predictions for 2019. IoT Attacks in 2018. Yet, the major attack of 2018 was definitely VPNFilter, hitting over half a million devices, mostly routers, from a wide range of known vendors.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 27, 2021

Researchers have discovered a strain of cryptocurrency-mining malware, tracked as Crackonosh, that abuses Windows Safe mode to avoid detection. . Later the experts discovered that Crackonosh was also able to disable antivirus software from other major security vendors to avoid detection, including Windows Defender and Windows Update.

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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

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

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

AUGUST 28, 2018

According to the threat intelligence firm Volexity, the CVE-2018-11776 vulnerability is already being abused in malicious attacks in the wild. Just yesterday I wrote about the availability online of the exploit code for the recently discovered Critical remote code execution vulnerability CVE-2018-11776 in Apache Struts 2.

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2021

Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box. Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box. Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Security researchers from Palo Alto Networks have discovered a new botnet, tracked as PgMiner, that targets PostgreSQL databases running on Linux servers to install a cryptocurrency miner. In 2018, CVE-2019-9193 was linked to this feature, naming it as a “vulnerability.” ” continues the analysis. ” concludes the analysis.

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Security Affairs

MAY 27, 2021

In April, the FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) previously warned of attacks carried out by APT groups targeting Fortinet FortiOS servers using multiple exploits. The threat actors are actively exploiting the following vulnerabilities in Fortinet FortiOS: CVE-2018-13379 ; CVE-2020-12812 ; CVE-2019-5591.

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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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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2018

The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Evolution of threat landscape for IoT devices – H1 2018. Adobe issued a critical out-of-band patch to address CVE-2018-12848 Acrobat flaw. Ngrok Mining Botnet. Security Affairs – Newsletter ). A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Paper Copy.

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Security Affairs

MAY 3, 2024

In January, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), National Security Agency (NSA), US Cyber Command, and international partners released a joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) to warn that Russia-linked threat actors are using compromised Ubiquiti EdgeRouters to evade detection in cyber operations worldwide. ” reported Trend Micro.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 23, 2020

As first reported here last year , First American’s website exposed 16 years worth of digitized mortgage title insurance records — including bank account numbers and statements, mortgage and tax records, Social Security numbers, wire transaction receipts, and drivers license images. In the days that followed, the DFS and U.S.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Guy Fawkes Day, November 5th 2018 – LulzSec Italy announced credit a string of hacks and leaks targeting numerous systems and websites across Italy. In celebration of Guy Fawkes Day, November 5th 2018, LulzSec Italy announced credit for a massive string of hacks and leaks targeting numerous systems and websites across Italy.

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Security Affairs

MAY 19, 2019

The best news of the week with Security Affairs. If you appreciate my effort in spreading cybersecurity awareness, please vote for Security Affairs in the section “Your Vote for the Best EU Security Tweeter” [link]. Security breach suffered by credit bureau Equifax has cost $1.4 Kindle Edition. Paper Copy.

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Security Affairs

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

MARCH 3, 2019

The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Cyber Command disrupted blocked Russian troll factory during 2018 midterms. CoinHive Cryptocurrency Mining Service will shut down on March 8, 2019. The post Security Affairs newsletter Round 203 – News of the week appeared first on Security Affairs. Kindle Edition.

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Security Affairs

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. The post New variant of Linux Botnet WatchBog adds BlueKeep scanner appeared first on Security Affairs. ” reads a blog post published by Intezer. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Security experts at Microsoft analyzed a new strain of cryptocurrency miner tracked as Dexphot that has been active since at least October 2018. The malicious code abuse of the resources of the infected machine to mine cryptocurrency , according to the experts it has already infected 80,000 computers worldwide.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

The security firm Qihoo 360 Netlab discovered more than 7,500 MikroTik routers that have been compromised to enable Socks4 proxy maliciously. 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. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

CVE-2020-14882 Oracle WebLogic Server RCE, and CVE-2018-20062 ThinkPHP RCE) and targeting sites and systems protected with weak administrative credentials. Upon infecting a system, the malware abuses its resources to mine cryptocurrency. . The malware spread through attacks exploiting known vulnerabilities (i.e. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

“This could be through a loss of mining time or expenditure of electricity by shutting down nodes and delaying blocks or causing the network to temporarily partition.” The post INVDoS, a severe DoS issue in Bitcoin core remained undisclosed for two years appeared first on Security Affairs. ” continues the paper.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2021

” The malware was first spotted in February 2018 by researchers from Proofpoint when the bot was using the EternalBlue exploit to infect Windows computers and recruit them in Monero cryptocurrency mining activities. The post MyKings botnet operators already amassed at least $24 million appeared first on Security Affairs.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 28, 2021

However, these attacks aren’t due to exchange security flaws; malicious actors are exploiting the underlying consensus protocols of blockchains themselves. In 2018, a 51% attack on Bitcoin Gold absconded with over $18M, and the attack was estimated to cost less than $200k to execute.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 22, 2019

Trend Micro recently discovered an Android crypto-currency mining botnet that can spread via open ADB (Android Debug Bridge) ports and Secure Shell (SSH). Security researchers at Trend Micro have discovered an new Android crypto-currency mining botnet that spreads via open ADB ( Android Debug Bridge ) ports and Secure Shell (SSH).

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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

JANUARY 4, 2019

. “Starting in mid-November 2018, our telemetry reports indicate that the newest version of the NRSMiner cryptominer, which uses the Eternal Blue exploit to propagate to vulnerable systems within a local network, is actively spreading in Asia. ” reads the analysis published by F-Secure. then it deletes itself.

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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

JANUARY 31, 2021

to mine Monero, unlike 2019 variant, it uses a Python infection script to implement “wormable” capabilities. Rocke Group has been active at least since 2018 by Cisco Talos, their cryptomining operations have evolved over time with new feature and evasion techniques. ” continues the analysis. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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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