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Atlassian Confluence zero-day CVE-2023-22515 actively exploited in attacks

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Software giant Atlassian released emergency security updates to address a critical zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-22515 (CVSS score 10), in its Confluence Data Center and Server software. The flaw CVE-2023-22515 is a privilege escalation vulnerability that affects Confluence Data Center and Server 8.0.0 and later.

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CrowdStrike discovered the first-ever Dero cryptocurrency mining campaign

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CrowdStrike researchers discovered the first-ever cryptocurrency mining campaign aimed at Dero mining since February 2023. The campaign started in February 2023 and originated from three servers based in the U.S. The mining efforts by the pods are contributed back to a community pool, which distributes the reward (i.e.,

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Threat actors exploit Atlassian Confluence bug in cryptomining campaigns

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Threat actors are actively exploiting a critical flaw in the Atlassian Confluence Data Center and Confluence Server in cryptocurrency mining campaigns. The critical vulnerability CVE-2023-22527 (CVSS score 10.0) 5, 2023 as well as 8.4.5 Customers using an affected version must take immediate action.” Data Center only), and 8.7.1

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Cryptohack Roundup: Orbit Chain's $81M New Year's Eve Hack

Data Breach Today

Also: Crypto Hack Losses in 2023 Decreased by Over 50% This week, Orbit Chain lost $81 million in a New Year's Eve hack, Indonesian police shuttered bitcoin mining operations, dYdX named its attacker, $324,000 users fell victim to 2023 crypto phishing scams, Singapore's prime minister had a deepfake problem, and 2023 crypto losses decreased by over (..)

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How Cryptocurrency Turns to Cash in Russian Banks

Krebs on Security

Sanders spent most of 2023 in Ukraine, traveling with Ukrainian soldiers while mapping the shifting landscape of Russian crypto exchanges that are laundering money for narcotics networks operating in the region. — shows an entity by that name incorporated at a mail drop in London in December 2023.

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Mastermind behind 1.8 million cryptojacking scheme arrested in Ukraine

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million) worth of cryptocurrencies via mining activities. “The suspect is believed to have mined over USD 2 million (EUR 1.8 ” An unnamed cloud service provider supported the investigation for months. “The suspect is believed to have mined over USD 2 million (EUR 1.8 million) in cryptocurrencies.”

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Targeted operation against Ukraine exploited 7-year-old MS Office bug

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The researchers found a malicious PPSX (PowerPoint Slideshow signal-2023-12-20-160512.ppsx) ppsx) file uploaded from Ukraine to VirusTotal at the end of 2023. It’s a PPSX file, seemingly an outdated US Army manual for tank mine clearing blades (MCB). The PPSX file contains a remote link to an external OLE object.

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