Security Affairs

JULY 24, 2018

According to the Trend Micro blog , “We found a new exploit using port 5555 after detecting two suspicious spikes in activity on July 9-10 and July 15. […] Our data shows that the first wave of network traffic came mainly from China and the US, while the second wave primarily involved Korea.” Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 18, 2022

MaliBot disguises itself as a cryptocurrency mining app named “Mining X” or “The CryptoApp”, experts also observed the malicious code masqueraded as “MySocialSecurity” and “Chrome” apps. sections “The Underdogs – Best Personal (non-commercial) Security Blog” and “The Tech Whizz – Best Technical Blog”). Pierluigi Paganini.

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OpenText Information Management

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

This blog is co-authored by Annie John and Todd Cernetic. Not that long-ago, social media was the “new kid on the block,” something we used to share photos with distant family members, comment … The post Is social media being mined for insider threats? appeared first on OpenText Blogs.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

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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Security Affairs

MAY 14, 2022

These ports have maximized their cargo turnover through cooperation with JSC Russian Railways which delivers coal from the mining sites to the ports. Port and Railway Projects Service of JSC UMMC operates the two largest ports in Russia specializing in coal shipments. To nominate, please visit:? Pierluigi Paganini.

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OpenText Information Management

MARCH 13, 2019

Even though data mining and text mining are often seen as complementary analytic processes that solve business problems through data analysis, they differ on the type of data they handle. appeared first on OpenText Blogs.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 22, 2022

The Lemon_Duck cryptomining botnet is targeting Docker servers to mine cryptocurrency on Linux systems. Crowdstrikes researchers reported that the Lemon_Duck cryptomining botnet is targeting Docker to mine cryptocurrency on Linux systems. “The “a.asp” file is the actual payload in this attack. ” concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 14, 2018

Earlier August, experts uncovered a massive crypto jacking campaign that was targeting MikroTik routers to inject a Coinhive cryptocurrency mining script in the web traffic. In September thousands of unpatched MikroTik Routers were involved in new cryptocurrency mining campaigns.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 3, 2022

The bot focuses on cryptocurrency mining and cryptocurrency theft via clipboard hijacking. sections “The Underdogs – Best Personal (non-commercial) Security Blog” and “The Tech Whizz – Best Technical Blog”) To nominate, please visit:? million in illicit gains. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 8, 2019

Avast spotted a new strain of Clipsa malware that is used to mine and steal cryptocurrencies along with carrying out brute-force attacks on WordPress sites. Clipsa is a malware that is well known to cyber security community is able to steal cryptocurrency via clipoard hijacking and mine cryptocurrency after installing a miner. .

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Adam Levin

MAY 5, 2020

Hackers successfully breached the servers of a popular blogging platform and used them to mine cryptocurrency. Ghost, a Singapore-based blogging platform with 2,000,000 installations and 750,000 active users, announced that hackers had breached their systems. .

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Security Affairs

JUNE 3, 2022

In September 2021, Trend Micro researchers spotted crypto-mining campaigns that were actively exploiting a recently disclosed critical remote code execution vulnerability in Atlassian Confluence deployments across Windows and Linux. Please vote for Security Affairs and Pierluigi Paganini in every category that includes them (e.g.

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Security Affairs

MAY 14, 2023

Initially, they deployed and executed a separate Monero miner alongside the usual RapperBot binary, but starting from January 2023, they included the mining capabilities in the bot. The malware decodes the mining pools and Monero wallet addresses and updates the configuration before starting the embedded miner.

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Security Affairs

MAY 4, 2022

” The technique to compromise Dockers containers is widely adopted by financially-motivated threat actors, like LemonDuck or TeamTNT to abuse their resources and mine cryptocurrencies. The experts noticed that the Docker images’ target lists overlap with domains shared by the Ukraine IT Army (UIA). To nominate, please visit:?

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Security Affairs

JULY 25, 2019

Experts at Intezer researchers have spotted a strain of the Linux mining that also scans the Internet for Windows RDP servers vulnerable to the Bluekeep. ” reads a blog post published by Intezer. ” reads a blog post published by Intezer.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 15, 2022

The crimeware allows operators to steal information from infected systems and abuse its resources to mine Monero. In many cases, this includes the RedLine Stealer and an XMRig-based cryptocurrency mining malware that is internally referred to as “ZingoMiner.”” To nominate, please visit:? Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 15, 2022

” The botnet is engaged in cryptomining activity, the malicious code has been designed to hijack the computer’s resources to mine cryptocurrencies. sections “The Underdogs – Best Personal (non-commercial) Security Blog” and “The Tech Whizz – Best Technical Blog”). To nominate, please visit:?. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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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Security Affairs

AUGUST 28, 2019

” reads a blog post published by Avast. Since it was the C&C server’s responsibility to give mining jobs to the bots, none of the bots received any new mining jobs to execute after this takedown.” The server instructed the bot to remove itself from infected machines. ” continues Avast.

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Security Affairs

MAY 17, 2022

“As for the fake cryptocurrency miner apps, their operators not only try to profit from their victims by duping them into buying fake cloud-based cryptocurrency-mining services, but they also try to harvest private keys and other sensitive cryptocurrency-related information from users who are interested in what they offer.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Uptycs has already shared details about remediation and detection steps for its customers in the previous blog. In this blog post, we will talk about various malware categories that attackers are taking advantage of the Log4j vulnerability. Xmrig is an open sourced Monero CPU Miner used to mine Monero cryptocurrency. Coinminers.

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Security Affairs

MAY 18, 2022

One of the threat types that surfaced and thrived since the introduction of cryptocurrency, cryptojackers are mining malware that hijacks and consumes a target’s device resources for the former’s gain and without the latter’s knowledge or consent. Below is a list of threats that are currently leveraging cryptocurrency: Cryptojackers.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2020

New blog: The threat actor BISMUTH, which has been running increasingly complex targeted attacks, deployed coin miners in campaigns from July to August 2020. Learn how the group tried to stay under the radar using threats perceived to be less alarming: [link] — Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) November 30, 2020. .

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Security Affairs

APRIL 24, 2022

In September, Trend Micro researchers spotted crypto-mining campaigns that were actively exploiting another critical remote code execution vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-26084 , in Atlassian Confluence deployments across Windows and Linux. The vulnerability was reported by Khoadha of Viettel Cyber Security. To nominate, please visit:?

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 8, 2021

“The loader decrypts the malicious malware and executes it using memfd create (as described in this blog in 2018). Experts pointed out that while this technique common in Windows malware, it is rare in Linux attacks. ” reads the post published by AT&T’s Alien Labs.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 25, 2019

Experts pointed out that attackers can exploit the vulnerabilities to take complete control over websites and servers and use them for malicious purposed, such as mining cryptocurrency or deliver malware. Experts at Palo Alto Network discovered several exploits for both vulnerabilities in the wild, including an exploit for the RCE one.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 8, 2019

51% attack refers to an attack on a blockchain by a group of miners that controls over 50% of the network’s mining hashrate. ” reads a blog post published by Coinbase. Ethereum Classic (ETC) is the original unforked Ethereum blockchain, the attacks resulted in the loss of $1.1 million worth of the digital currency.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2023

The botnet was involved in stealing users’ credentials and data, mining cryptocurrencies abusing victims’ resources, and setting up proxies to funnel other people’s internet traffic through infected machines and routers.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

A quick review of the launching parameters shows interesting information: the type and the version of the mining client used by the attacker, a “ NHEQ Miner ” developed by Nicehash; the mining pool abused by the criminal; and the wallet ID ( t1L9iBXyRgaYrQ5JSTSdstopV6pHtZ2Xdep). Information about miner executable. Conclusions.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2020

This directory contains the crypto mining module named kswapd0. This component has two main functions: Install a cryptoMiner worker: The main purpose of this elf file is the instantiation of a crypto-mining worker. It is a fork of XMRIG project, one of the most popular software to mine monero crypto values.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 20, 2021

Mine was learning that KrebsOnSecurity is listed as a restricted competitor by Gartner Inc. What was the best news you heard so far this month? NYSE:IT ] — a $4 billion technology goliath whose analyst reports can move markets and shape the IT industry. Those enticements have mostly fallen on deaf ears.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 11, 2018

With a little more investigation, I found two browser extensions that were crypto mining, which fortunately uninstalled without a problem. My high schooler fessed up immediately that he installed the crypto mining extensions just to see what would happen (and to make some money). At dinner, we had “the talk” about safe computing.

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Security Affairs

MAY 6, 2022

On executing the above shell script (hash: 05a65e666492dd8ec5ab0985e5395967bc7bed03e9aaca11cdb9351873093382), the Xmrig miner gets downloaded from github and mining gets started (see Figure 8). The main objective of kinsing is to mine cryptocurrency on the vulnerable servers. Figure 9: xmrig getting downloaded. Conclusion.

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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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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 28, 2021

However, if an attacker possesses 51% or more of the computational power of the entire network, they can force nodes to accept their alternate chain, because it’s built with more mining power than the “legitimate” chain currently on the network. Attackers can use this method of rewriting history to reverse transactions.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 26, 2023

The group invites anyone wishing to bid on all Solar Group data within 24 hours of the publication of its blog to contact them in TOX. It is interesting to notice that the gang claims have serious evidence of industrial spying in other countries (including friendly states).

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Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2022

The phishing messages sent to the journalists contained a link to ZIP archives containing LNK files, both named ‘Kang Min-chol edits’ (Kang Min-chol is North Korea’s Minister of Mining Industries). The archive was hosted on the domain dailynk[.]us us which impersonates NK News (dailynk[.]com), To nominate, please visit:?

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