Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

The malicious Monero (XMR) Coinhive cryptomining scripts were delivered leveraging the Google’s legitimate Google Tag Manager (GTM) library. ” reads the analysis published by Symantec. The mining script then gets activated and begins using the majority of the computer’s CPU cycles to mine Monero for the operators.”

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 8, 2019

The adware applications were linked together by the use of third-party Android libraries, which bypass the background service restrictions present in newer Android versions. However, our analysts were able to detect it because apps using these libraries waste the user’s battery and make the device slower.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

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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Security Affairs

MARCH 30, 2021

The expert determined the number of cryptocurrencies that were mined to a mining pool account by inspecting the mining pool. Half of the images discovered by the expert were using a shared mining pool, by he estimated that threat actors mined US$200,000 worth of cryptocurrencies in a two-year period.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2024

It’s a PPSX file, seemingly an outdated US Army manual for tank mine clearing blades (MCB). The payload includes a dynamic-link library (vpn.sessings) that injects the post-exploitation tool Cobalt Strike Beacon into memory and awaits commands from the C2 server. The PPSX file contains a remote link to an external OLE object.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 5, 2022

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. However, attackers are adding obfuscation to these requests to evade the detection based on request analysis.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

“CISA obtained four malicious files for analysis during an on-site incident response engagement at a Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) organization compromised by Iranian government sponsored advanced persistent threat (APT) actors.” ” reads the Malware Analysis Report (AR22-320A) published by CISA.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

” reads the analysis published by Cybereason. bin, researchers also observed the use of a cryptocurrency mining module. . . “Chaes specifically targets the Brazilian website of e-commerce company MercadoLivre and its payment page MercadoPago to steal its customers’ financial information. SecurityAffairs – hacking, malware).

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2024

Security Affairs Malware newsletter includes a collection of the best articles and research on malware in the international landscape.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Technical analysis. Despite its popularity, the Shade payload, at the analysis time, did not show high detection rates: only a third of antimalware detected it (24/69), even if the behaviour of the threat is such harassing as recognizable. However, the mining pool dashboard provides a clue of the current number of infected machines.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

In August 2020, Guardicore Labs researchers published a detailed analysis of the threat, at the time the malware infected over 500 servers in the U.S. “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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Security Affairs

JUNE 5, 2019

“Simultaneous with its attacks, BlackSquid also downloads and executes two XMRig cryptocurrency-mining components.! continues the analysis. The malware implements anti-virtualization, anti-debugging, and anti-sandboxing methods to determine whether to deliver the miner or not.

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Imperial Violet

JUNE 25, 2016

Emphasis is mine.). says that passing a NULL pointer to a standard library function is undefined behaviour, therefore if dest was NULL any behaviour is reasonable. can be applied to any standard library function. I'm sure that 7.1.4 If you read 7.24.2.1 The compiler's reasoning goes like this: 7.1.4 Section 7.1.4 Measurement.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 25, 2019

Malware Analysis Sandboxes could expose sensitive data of your organization. A backdoor mechanism found in tens of Ruby libraries. Employees abused systems at Ukrainian nuclear power plant to mine cryptocurrency. Galaxy S10 is the first 5G phone that can be used by US DoD. Hacker publicly releases Jailbreak for iOS version 12.4.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 3, 2018

Experts uncovered a massive cryptojacking campaign that is targeting MikroTik routers to inject a Coinhive cryptocurrency mining script in the web traffic. According to Trustwave the hackers were exploiting a zero-day flaw in the MikroTik routers to inject a copy of the Coinhive library in the traffic passing through the MikroTik router.

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IBM Big Data Hub

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Open-source AI projects and libraries, freely available on platforms like GitHub, fuel digital innovation in industries like healthcare, finance and education. Leveraging existing libraries and tools, small teams of developers can build valuable applications for diverse platforms like Microsoft Windows, Linux, iOS and Android.

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CILIP

MARCH 19, 2021

Copyright has created a digital dark age where the most powerful tools for cultural analysis are blind between 1910 and the rise of social media, says Melissa Terras , Professor of Digital Culture at Edinburgh University and keynote speaker at CILIP?s ve read that only seven libraries have been taken to court in the UK. she says, ?because

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Archive-It

MAY 8, 2023

by the Community Programs team This Spring, the Internet Archive hosted two in-person workshops aimed at helping to advance library support for web archive research: Digital Scholarship & the Web and Art Resources on the Web. Participants further explored data generated with ARCH in Palladio , Voyant , and RAWGraphs.

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Archive-It

MAY 8, 2023

by the Community Programs team This Spring, the Internet Archive hosted two in-person workshops aimed at helping to advance library support for web archive research: Digital Scholarship & the Web and Art Resources on the Web. Participants further explored data generated with ARCH in Palladio , Voyant , and RAWGraphs.

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Collibra

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Yes, the ancient pyramids relied not only on labor and raw materials, but on data collection and analysis. . Cloud storage, text mining and social network analytics are vital 21 st century tools. In short, it required a system—a system tracked, 4,500 years ago, with ink on papyrus. Data collection is what we do. Around 300 B.C.E.,

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Guido Vranken returns to The Hacker Mind to discuss his CryptoFuzz tool on GitHub, as well as his experience fuzzing and finding vulnerabilities in cryptographic libraries and also within cryptocurrencies such as Ethereum. Nor am I going to wade into the debate about the ecological consequences of mining cryptocurrencies.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 2, 2024

This picture comes from an analysis of specific statistics and by reading between the lines in reports from 1Password, Cisco, CrowdStrike, Flashpoint, Google Threat Analysis Group/Mandiant, NetScout, Pentera, and Sophos. and software libraries to attack the supply chain. 20% of employee time is spent on company networks.

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IBM Big Data Hub

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Modernization teams perform their code analysis and go through several documents (mostly dated); this is where their reliance on code analysis tools becomes important. Generative AI also helps generate use cases based on code insights and functional mapping.

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Archive-It

AUGUST 14, 2023

Like the previous workshop held at the Art Librarians Society of North America (ARLIS/NA) conference in Mexico City, this event was supported by a generous grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). Left: Executive Librarian Roger Lawson leads workshop attendees on a tour of the National Gallery of Art Library.

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Archive-It

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Visualization presented at the Humanities and the Web: Introduction to Web Archive Data Analysis, November 14, 2022, Los Angeles Public Library. Humanities and the Web: Introduction to Web Archive Data Analysis Recap. ICYMI: National Library of History Talk “What’s in a Web Archive Collection” now online. Office of U.S.

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Archive-It

AUGUST 10, 2023

Public Library’s Martin Luther King Jr. In the second hour, Ruth Bryan, University Archivist from the University of Kentucky (UK) Special Collections Research Center (SCRC) presented UK Libraries’ Wildcat Histories: Preserving Student Activist Social Media Content. Memorial branch.

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ARMA International

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

ARMA defines information as “Data that has been given value through analysis, interpretation, or compilation in a meaningful form” (ARMA 2016, p 28). DT is creating real-time data that can be “mined” to uncover information about products, customers, market trends, and financial risks. Information and Content Explosion. Data Analytics.

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ARMA International

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Another example is when sensitive information is removed from transaction data after meeting operational requirements, but the data is kept for analytical processing such as market research and trend analysis. AI can perform data analytics on content from many sources and may focus on trend analysis, predictive analytics, modeling, and so on.

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Archive-It

JULY 28, 2020

Archived web data and collections are increasingly important to scholarly practice, especially to those scholars interested in data mining and computational approaches to analyzing large sets of data, text, and records from the web. by the Archive-It team. We are grateful to The Andrew W.

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IBM Big Data Hub

AUGUST 11, 2023

Machine learning engineers take massive datasets and use statistical methods to create algorithms that are trained to find patterns and uncover key insights in data mining projects. MLOps is the next evolution of data analysis and deep learning. Simply put, MLOps uses machine learning to make machine learning more efficient.

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Archives Blogs

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston. For more analysis, I recommend Lawrence Bradley’s book Dinosaurs and Indians in the references. . The Library Quarterly 87, no. This blog post is a slightly edited version of a talk I gave last Friday to our regional professional organization, New England Archivists. Over-interpreting?

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 30, 2020

Decipher provides context, information, and analysis, not to point fingers or lay blame. He shares a particular example: e-commerce couldn’t have happened without fundamental crypto libraries, such as TLS and SSL. Thanks to these crypto libraries, today’s online economy is the size of Spain’s GDP! What's this?

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 30, 2020

Decipher provides context, information, and analysis, not to point fingers or lay blame. He shares a particular example: e-commerce couldn’t have happened without fundamental crypto libraries, such as TLS and SSL. Thanks to these crypto libraries, today’s online economy is the size of Spain’s GDP! What's this?

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 30, 2020

Decipher provides context, information, and analysis, not to point fingers or lay blame. He shares a particular example: e-commerce couldn’t have happened without fundamental crypto libraries, such as TLS and SSL. Thanks to these crypto libraries, today’s online economy is the size of Spain’s GDP! What's this?

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CILIP

APRIL 5, 2023

Standing up to arguments against copyright reforms GETTING copyright right matters for libraries. It’s arguably one side of the same coin as funding, determining what we can do with our resources, and so how far readers, researchers and learners can enjoy effective library services. This article shares some examples.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Also known as an “application rootkit,” the user-mode rootkit replaces executables and system libraries and modifies the behavior of application programming interfaces (APIs). However, a rootkit can be detected by trained investigators and analysis tools, such as rootkit scanners, which uncover clues to the presence of the rootkit.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 9, 2024

At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. Welcome to this week’s round-up of the biggest and most interesting news stories. Publicly disclosed data breaches and cyber attacks: in the spotlight Hathaway breached, 41.5

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