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Experts spotted first-ever crypto mining campaign leveraging Kubernetes RBAC

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Experts warn of a large-scale cryptocurrency mining campaign exploiting Kubernetes (K8s) Role-Based Access Control ( RBAC ). Cloud security firm Aqua discovered a large-scale cryptocurrency mining campaign exploiting Kubernetes (K8s) Role-Based Access Control ( RBAC ) to create backdoors and run miners.

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Access to over 3,000 compromised sites sold on Russian black marketplace MagBo

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Security experts at Flashpoint discovered the availability of the access to over 3,000 compromised sites sold on Russian black marketplace MagBo. A new report published by researchers at Flashpoint revealed the availability on an underground hacking forum for Russian-speaking users of access to over 3,000 breached websites.

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Guy Fawkes Day – LulzSec Italy hit numerous organizations in Italy

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Italian Military Personnel and National Association of Professional Educators. Italian Military Personnel and National Association of Professional Educators. National Mining Office for Hydrocarbons & Geo-resources. Administrator Username & Password To Access Archive: [link]. 38 Databases Total: [link].

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Vollgar botnet has managed to infect around 3k MSSQL DB servers daily

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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. and Windows Script Host Object Model (wshom).

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FritzFrog cryptocurrency P2P botnet targets Linux servers over SSH

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The bot is written in Golang and implements wormable capabilities, experts reported attacks against entities in government, education, and finance sectors. The bot is able to establish a backdoor on the infected systems in order to achieve continued access.

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Crooks social-engineered GoDaddy staff to take over crypto-biz domains

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In due course, the malicious actor was able to partially compromise our infrastructure, and gain access to document storage.” ” Cyber criminals also targeted crypto-mining firm NiceHash with the same technique and successfully carried out a DNS hijacking attack.

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Panchan Golang P2P botnet targeting Linux servers in cryptomining campaign

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Researchers discovered a new Golang-based peer-to-peer (P2P) botnet, dubbed Panchan, targeting Linux servers in the education sector since March 2022. ” The botnet is engaged in cryptomining activity, the malicious code has been designed to hijack the computer’s resources to mine cryptocurrencies.

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