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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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FritzFrog P2P Botnet is back and targets Healthcare, Education and Government Sectors

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FritzFrog P2P botnet is back and is targeting servers belonging to entities in the healthcare, education, and government sectors. The bot is written in Golang and implements wormable capabilities, experts reported attacks against entities in the government, education, and finance sectors. ” reads the report published by Akamai.

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Cryptocurrencies and cybercrime: A critical intermingling

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Emerging threats Cybercrime often exploits precisely the lack of regulation and centralized controls of cryptocurrencies to deceive investors and embezzle funds through various forms of phishing, investment scams, digital wallet theft, ransomware, and illegal mining. Education improves awareness” is his slogan.

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Steelcase office furniture giant hit by Ryuk ransomware attack

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Steelcase is a US-based furniture company that produces office furniture, architectural and technology products for office environments and the education, health care and retail industries. Office furniture company Steelcase was hit by Ryuk ransomware attack that forced it to shut down its network to avoid the malware from spreading.

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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. Akamai security researchers discovered a new Golang-based P2P Botnet, tracked as Panchan, that is targeting Linux servers that has been active since March 2022.

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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. FritzFrog is a new sophisticated botnet that has been actively targeting SSH servers worldwide since January 2020.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 479 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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