Krebs on Security

JANUARY 6, 2022

Norton 360 , one of the most popular antivirus products on the market today, has installed a cryptocurrency mining program on its customers’ computers. which was renamed to NortonLifeLock in 2019 (LifeLock is now included in the Norton 360 service). “The key to the wallet is encrypted and stored securely in the cloud.

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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

JUNE 15, 2020

Black Kingdom ransomware operators are targeting organizations using unpatched Pulse Secure VPN software to deploy their malware. Black Kingdom ransomware was first spotted in late February by security researcher GrujaRS. The CVE-2019-11510 flaw in Pulse Connect Secure is a critical arbitrary file read vulnerability.

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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 botnet is active since at least May 2019, the botnet is more active in Latin America the most. 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. ” continues the analysis.

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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

MARCH 3, 2019

The best news of the week with Security Affairs. CVE-2019-9019 affects British Airways Entertainment System on Boeing 777-36N(ER). Recently disclosed Drupal CVE-2019-6340 RCE flaw exploited in the wild. CoinHive Cryptocurrency Mining Service will shut down on March 8, 2019. Kindle Edition. Paper Copy. Enjoy it! [SI-LAB]

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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. ” The vulnerability , tracked as CVE-2019-0708, impacts the Windows Remote Desktop Services (RDS) and was addressed by Microsoft with May 2019 Patch Tuesday updates. .

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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

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

“They induced victims to enter into fraudulent equipment rental contracts with the defendants’ cryptocurrency mining service called HashFlare. ” The defendants are accused to have defrauded the victims between December 2013 and August 2019, they operated with other co-conspirators residing in Estonia, Belarus, and Switzerland.

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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 KashmirBlack botnet has been active at least since November 2019, operators leverages dozens of known vulnerabilities in the target servers. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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

JULY 21, 2019

The best news of the week with Security Affairs. SAP Patch Day – July 2019 addresses a critical flaw in Diagnostics Agent. CVE-2019-6342 flaw allows hackers to fully compromise Drupal 8.7.4 Israel surveillance firm NSO group can mine data from major social media. Kindle Edition. Paper Copy. Once again thank you!

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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.” link] — Caprico (@Suprn8) May 18, 2019.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2020

— Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) April 28, 2020. ” reads the Tweet published by the Microsoft Security Intelligence team. . ” reads the Tweet published by the Microsoft Security Intelligence team. The in-memory DLL then injects a coin-mining code into notepad.exe through process hollowing.

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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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Krebs on Security

JULY 23, 2020

In May 2019, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that the website of mortgage title insurance giant First American Financial Corp. billion in 2019. In August 2019, the company said a third-party investigation into the exposure identified just 32 consumers whose non-public personal information likely was accessed without authorization. .

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Security Affairs

JUNE 24, 2024

Over the past year, ExCobalt targeted Russian organizations in the the following industries: Metallurgy Telecommunications Mining Information technology Government Software development The Cobalt’s hallmark was the use of the CobInt tool , the same tool that ExCobalt began using in 2022.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 22, 2022

The Lemon_Duck cryptomining botnet is targeting Docker servers to mine cryptocurrency on Linux systems. Crowdstrikes researchers reported that the Lemon_Duck cryptomining botnet is targeting Docker to mine cryptocurrency on Linux systems. “The “a.asp” file is the actual payload in this attack. ” concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 31, 2021

The malware is an evolution of a Monero cryptocurrency miner that was first spotted by Unit 42 researchers in 2019. to mine Monero, unlike 2019 variant, it uses a Python infection script to implement “wormable” capabilities. ” If you want to receive the weekly Security Affairs Newsletter for free subscribe here. .

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 8, 2019

51% attack refers to an attack on a blockchain by a group of miners that controls over 50% of the network’s mining hashrate. “On 1/5/2019, Coinbase detected a deep chain reorganization of the Ethereum Classic blockchain that included a double spend. reads an update published by Coinbase on January 6, 2019.

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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. The Lemon_Duck cryptomining malware was first spotted in June 2019 by researchers from Trend Micro while targeting enterprise networks.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 23, 2019

Security researcher from F5 Networks that released more details and proof-of-concept for the recently addressed flaw in Outlook for Android. Microsoft has recently addressed an important vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2019-1105, in Outlook for Android, that potentially affected over 100 million users. This one is mine.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Avast researchers reported that since 2019, MyKings operators have amassed at least $24 million in the Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Dogecoin. The post MyKings botnet operators already amassed at least $24 million appeared first on Security Affairs. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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. However, there are solutions blockchains can adopt to drastically increase their security without attracting any more mining power.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

At the time of its discovery, the sample analyzed by the experts was not labeled as malicious by any security vendors on VirusTotal. The malicious code uses i2p to download malicious components and send mined currency to the attacker’s wallet. . The experts identified three generation of malware since August 2019.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 15, 2019

The cybercrime organization was first spotted in April 2018 by researchers at Cisco Talos, earlier 2019 researchers from Palo Alto Networks Unit42 found new malware samples used by the Rocke group for cryptojacking that uninstalls from Linux servers cloud security and monitoring products developed by Tencent Cloud and Alibaba Cloud.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Cybereason Nocturnus security researchers have identified an active campaign focused on the users of a large e-commerce platform in Latin America. In 2019, over 320 million users were registered with the MercadoLivre e-commerce platform. . bin, researchers also observed the use of a cryptocurrency mining module. .

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JUNE 29, 2020

Security experts from ESET revealed that the number of daily brute-force attacks on Windows RDP has doubled during the COVID-19 lockdown. ESET researchers also said the attackers also attempt to exploit RDP connections to try to install coin-mining malware or create a backdoor. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, COVID-19).

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 8, 2021

The loader observed by the researchers in the attacks is written in Golang and borrows the Ezuri code published on GitHub by the user guitmz in March 2019. ” If you want to receive the weekly Security Affairs Newsletter for free subscribe here. .” reads the post published by AT&T’s Alien Labs. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Mozi is an IoT botnet that borrows the code from Mirai variants and the Gafgyt malware , it appeared on the threat landscape in late 2019. According to the researchers, in the last months of 2019, the botnet was mainly involved in DDoS attacks. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Mozi botnet).

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AUGUST 29, 2019

District Court in Seattle on September 5, 2019. According to the indictment, Paige THOMPSON created a scanning software that used to identify AWS customers who had misconfigured their firewalls, then the hacker accessed their servers to steal data, and to “mine” cryptocurrency. .” reads the press release published by DoJ.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 18, 2019

Oracle released the first critical patch advisory for 2019 that addresses a total of 284 vulnerabilities, 33 of them are rated “critical”. The post Oracle critical patch advisory addresses 284 flaws, 33 critical appeared first on Security Affairs. ” reads the d escription provided by. Pierluigi Paganini.

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JULY 5, 2019

” Attackers leverage well-known flaws to compromise target systems, including security issues in ThinkPHP (CVE-2019-9082 and CVE-unassigned) , Atlassian Confluence (CVE-2019-3396) , and the popular Drupalgeddon vulnerability (CVE-2018-7600). Downloaded files are saved to a hidden /tmp/.mysqli Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 28, 2019

— Gendarmerie nationale (@Gendarmerie) August 28, 2019. Most of the infected systems were located in Latin America, more than 85% of victims did not have any security software installed. The post French Police remotely disinfected 850,000 PCs from RETADUP bot appeared first on Security Affairs. Une #PremièreMondiale !

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 12, 2021

The botnet appeared on the threat landscape in November 2020, the attacks aimed at compromising the target systems to create an IRC botnet, which can later be used to conduct several malicious activities, including DDoS attacks and crypto-mining campaigns. CVE-2019-12725 – Zeroshell 3.9.0. from visual-tools.com. P4410-V2-1.28

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

.” states a security notice published by the company. ” Cyber criminals also targeted crypto-mining firm NiceHash with the same technique and successfully carried out a DNS hijacking attack. .” The post Crooks social-engineered GoDaddy staff to take over crypto-biz domains appeared first on Security Affairs.

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