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Log4Shell was in the wild at least nine days before public disclosure

Security Affairs

Threat actors are already abusing Log4Shell vulnerability in the Log4j library for malicious purposes such as deploying malware. A few hours ago, researchers at NetLab 360 reported that their Anglerfish and Apacket honeypots were already hit by attacks attempting to trigger the Log4Shell flaw in the Log4j library.

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Threat actors continue to exploit Log4j flaws in their attacks, Microsoft Warns

Security Affairs

Microsoft is warning of continuing attempts by nation-state actors and cybercriminals to exploit recently discovered vulnerabilities in the Apache Log4j library to deploy malware on vulnerable systems. “Exploitation attempts and testing have remained high during the last weeks of December.

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TeamTNT group uses Hildegard Malware to target Kubernetes Systems

Security Affairs

The TeamTNT botnet is a crypto-mining malware operation that has been active since April 2020 and that targets Docker installs. The malware deploys the XMRig mining tool to mine Monero cryptocurrency. It also hides malicious processes using library injection and encrypts the malicious payload. aws/credentials and ~/.aws/config

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Iran-linked threat actors compromise US Federal Network

Security Affairs

According to a joint advisory published by the FBI and CISA, an Iran-linked APT group compromised a Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) organization using an exploit for the Log4Shell flaw ( CVE-2021-44228 ) and deployed a cryptomining malware. These files have been identified as variants of the XMRIG cryptocurrency mining software.

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FritzFrog P2P Botnet is back and targets Healthcare, Education and Government Sectors

Security Affairs

” The new campaign was spotted in early December 2021, the attack chain starts with an SSH brute force, then the malware drops and executes a file on the server. “The new implementation uses a public SCP library written in Golang in GitHub. It is, however, notable that the writers of the SCP library are located in China.”

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I Now Own the Coinhive Domain. Here's How I'm Fighting Cryptojacking and Doing Good Things with Content Security Policies.

Troy Hunt

I'll give you a perfect example of that last point: in Feb 2018 I wrote about The JavaScript Supply Chain Paradox: SRI, CSP and Trust in Third Party Libraries wherein someone had compromised a JS file on the Browsealoud service and injected the Coinhive script into it. file from coinhive.com and the setting of a 32-byte key. rows in total).

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Why is most of the 20th Century invisible to AI?

CILIP

s Copyright Conference 2021. ve read that only seven libraries have been taken to court in the UK. As chair of a university library committee, she has followed the current ebook pricing controversy and believes it is a symptom of a deeper problem. ?They?re Instead of a library of marks, a conventional library of books ?