Security Affairs

MAY 12, 2019

Two hacking groups associated with large-scale crypto mining campaigns, Pacha Group and Rocke Group , wage war to compromise as much as possible cloud-based infrastructure. org is in this blacklist and it is known that Rocke Group has used this domain for their crypto-mining operations. ” continues the report. Pierluigi Paganini.

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OpenText Information Management

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

The energy and resources sector including utilities, oil and gas, chemicals, and metals & mining is one of the most hazardous in the world. safety procedures, job safety analysis, material safety data sheets, emergency response plans, operating instructions, and much more), summarization, and translation at the speed of light.

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KnowBe4

JUNE 29, 2023

New analysis shows sources of cryptocurrency being placed into mining pools with huge deposits that make it easier for cybercriminals to make their ransom funds untraceable.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 15, 2023

CrowdStrike researchers discovered the first-ever cryptocurrency mining campaign aimed at Dero mining since February 2023. ” reads the analysis published by Crowdstrike. The mining efforts by the pods are contributed back to a community pool, which distributes the reward (i.e., ” continues the report.

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OpenText Information Management

JULY 9, 2024

Dig out trapped insights with text mining Traditional methods for gaining customer insights – like combing through 3rd-party review websites, Google Analytics, competitive research, and survey results – are slow and expensive. What is text mining? They also leave a lot of the good stuff buried because it’s too difficult to pull out.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 29, 2018

NTA refers to using advanced data mining and security analytics techniques to detect and investigate malicious activity in traffic moving between each device and on every critical system in a company network. Network traffic analytics, or NTA , just may be that pivotal step forward. Related: How the Uber hack pivoted off of DevOps. “We

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Krebs on Security

JULY 23, 2020

. “Respondent’s own analysis demonstrated that during this 11-month period, more than 350,000 documents were accessed without authorization by automated ‘bots’ or ‘scraper’ programs designed to collect information on the Internet.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

A threat actor is launching brute-force attacks on MSSQL servers in the attempt to access them to install a new crypto-mining malware dubbed MrbMiner. A group of hackers is launching brute-force attacks on MSSQL servers with the intent to compromise them and install crypto-mining malware dubbed MrbMiner. Mining process.”

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The threat actors used the gRPC protocol over h2c to bypass security and execute crypto mining on Docker hosts, manipulating Docker functionalities via gRPC methods. ” reads the analysis published by Trend Micro. continues the analysis. ” concludes the report. . ” concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

PaloAlto Network warns of the WatchDog botnet that uses exploits to take over Windows and Linux servers and mine cryptocurrency. 27, 2019 and already mined at least 209 Monero (XMR), valued to be around $32,056 USD. The WatchDog botnet has been active at least since Jan. Redis Spring Data Commons CVE-2018-1273, versions prior to 1.13-1.13.10,

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OpenText Information Management

MAY 30, 2024

OpenText™ is thrilled to announce that our IDOL™ platform has been named a leader in Forrester's recent vendor evaluation for document mining and analytics providers. Discover the Power of OpenText IDOL OpenText IDOL offers advanced AI-driven document mining and analytics to manage and extract insights from diverse data sources.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 4, 2024

The code decodes and retrieves a shell script (“unmi.sh”) from a remote server, in turn, it fetches a configuration file for the mining activity along with the CoinMiner file hosted on GitLab. This file outlines the cryptocurrency mining setting. ” reads the analysis published by Fortinet.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 20, 2021

Mine was learning that KrebsOnSecurity is listed as a restricted competitor by Gartner Inc. As the largest organization dedicated to the analysis of software, Gartner’s network of analysts are well connected to the technology and software industries. What was the best news you heard so far this month?

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 11, 2018

Group-IB is recording new outbreaks of illegal mining (cryptojacking) threats in the networks of commercial and state organizations. Group-IB, an international company specializing in the prevention of cyberattacks, is recording new outbreaks of illegal mining (cryptojacking) threats in the networks of commercial and state organizations.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 14, 2024

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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Krebs on Security

MARCH 7, 2022

penned a two-part analysis on why smart contracts will make ransomware more profitable. On June 6, 2021, Conti underling “ Begemot ” pitched Stern on a scheme to rip off a bunch of people mining virtual currencies, by launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against a cryptocurrency mining pool.

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Security Affairs

MAY 26, 2021

” reads the analysis published by Trend Micro. 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. ” reads the analysis published by Trend Micro.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

The main difference between the two is organization and analysis. For structured data, users can run simple analysis tools, i.e., content searches, to find what they need. But with no orderly internal framework, unstructured data defies data mining tools. Ransomware target.

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Threatpost

DECEMBER 11, 2020

The malware takes aim at PostgreSQL database servers with never-before-seen techniques.

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Security Affairs

JULY 24, 2018

” The Trend Micro researchers’ analysis shows a fairly typical command & control (C&C) malware infection process with many similarities to the Satori variant of the Mirai botnet. Analysis of the code indicates that it could be used as a distributed denial of service (DDoS) platform if enough devices are compromised.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 1, 2020

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. ” reads the analysis published by Guardicore.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 25, 2021

” reads the analysis published by ReasonLabs. The resource contains information for the mining activity, the researchers identified a self-compiled version of the XMrig open-source miner containing information such as username, password, algorithm, and mining pool. mp4” format.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 27, 2020

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. The analysis of the sinkholing activities revealed that there are, on average, 2,000 devices mining throughout the day.

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Using a technique known as chain analysis, the program targets not only those in direct phone contact with a criminal suspect but anyone with whom those individuals have been in contact as well.

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IBM Big Data Hub

MAY 17, 2023

Auto-discovery tools like process mining — a tool gaining popularity with organizations — does just that. 36% of respondents polled primarily use automated discovery tools like process mining, which improve their ability to analyze processes objectively and at scale.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 10, 2022

Experts linked the C2 infrastructure behind an the Abcbot botnet to a cryptocurrency-mining botnet attack that was uncovered in December 2020. Experts linked the infrastructure used by the Abcbot DDoS botnet to the operations of a cryptocurrency-mining botnet that was uncovered in December 2020.

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IBM Big Data Hub

AUGUST 28, 2023

One of the best ways to take advantage of social media data is to implement text-mining programs that streamline the process. What is text mining? Text analysis takes it a step farther by focusing on pattern identification across large datasets, producing more quantitative results. How does text mining work?

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 13, 2020

” reads the analysis published by Palo Alto Networks Unit42. “We believe PGMiner is the first cryptocurrency mining botnet that is delivered via PostgreSQL.” ” continues the analysis. ” concludes the analysis. ” The attack chain starts by randomly picking a public network range (e.g.,

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 13, 2021

” reads the analysis published by Microsoft. ” Talos researchers also updated the list of IOCs to include information about mining activity carried out by exploiting the CVE-2021-44228 flaw. The researchers spotted mining activity aimed at delivering of the Kinsing crypto-miner. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 25, 2021

. “These particular applications are targeted because they often run on systems that have powerful underlying hardware with significant amounts of memory and powerful CPUs—all of which allow threat actors to maximize their ability to monetize these resources through mining cryptocurrency.” ” continues the analysis.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 23, 2021

CISA warned of crypto-mining malware hidden in a popular JavaScript NPM library, named UAParser.js, which has millions of weekly downloads. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency published an advisory to warn of the discovery of a crypto-mining malware in the popular NPM Package UAParser.js.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

” reads the analysis published by Symantec. “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. Then the mining script is activated and starts abusing devices resources to mine Monero cryptocurrency.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 23, 2021

Sophos researchers that investigated the recently uncovered crypto-mining campaign targeting SQL servers with MrbMiner malware believe that it was conducted by an Iran-based company. ” continues the analysis. ” continues the analysis.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2024

Security Affairs Malware newsletter includes a collection of the best articles and research on malware in the international landscape. Rhadamanthys Stealer Adds Innovative AI Feature in Version 0.7.0

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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 30, 2020

The campaign primarily targets users in Spain and South American countries, aims to launch a coin-mining shellcode directly in memory. The in-memory DLL then injects a coin-mining code into notepad.exe through process hollowing. .” reads the Tweet published by the Microsoft Security Intelligence team.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 1, 2019

” reads the analysis published by Trend Micro. “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.”

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