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Will cryptocurrency mining soon saturate AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud?

The Last Watchdog

On the face, the damage caused by cryptojacking may appear to be mostly limited to consumers and website publishers who are getting their computing resources diverted to mining fresh units of Monero, Ethereum and Bytecoin on behalf of leeching attackers. You can mine them, if you have a powerful CPU. Bilogorskiy.

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Other 3,700 MikroTik Routers compromised in cryptoJacking campaigns

Security Affairs

Thousands of unpatched MikroTik Routers are involved in new cryptocurrency mining campaigns. Thousands of unpatched devices are mining for cryptocurrency at the moment. Now the researcher Troy Mursch noticed that the infected MikroTik routers from the latest campaign open a websockets tunnel to a web browser mining script.

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The Long Run of Shade Ransomware

Security Affairs

Shade connects to its C2 server using embedded TOR libraries and downloads additional modules, such as the aforementioned “CMSBrute” or the “ZCash miner” one. However, the mining pool dashboard provides a clue of the current number of infected machines. Information about miner executable. Conclusions. The Long Run of Shade Ransomware.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 228

Security Affairs

Hi folk, let me inform you that I suspended the newsletter service, anyway I’ll continue to provide you a list of published posts every week through the blog. A backdoor mechanism found in tens of Ruby libraries. Employees abused systems at Ukrainian nuclear power plant to mine cryptocurrency. Once again thank you!

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OpenText Named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Document Mining and Analytics Platforms, Q2 2024

OpenText Information Management

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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Q&A: Here’s why Android users must remain vigilant about malicious apps, more so than ever

The Last Watchdog

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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Weekly podcast: Australian Cabinet Files, Matt Hancock MP’s app and Monero mining

IT Governance

Unfortunately, however, the BBC reports that there are a few “teething troubles […] with some users saying their privacy has been compromised after responding to an on-screen prompt asking for access to their photo library. The app then still […] accesses the photo library whether the user denies access or not.”. What’s that?

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