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Experts spotted first-ever crypto mining campaign leveraging Kubernetes RBAC

Security Affairs

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

Security Affairs

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

Security Affairs

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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Guy Fawkes Day – LulzSec Italy hit numerous organizations in Italy

Security Affairs

Italian Military Personnel and National Association of Professional Educators. Italian Military Personnel and National Association of Professional Educators. National Mining Office for Hydrocarbons & Geo-resources. National Association of Professional Educators. Exposed in the Hack: National Research Center.

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Vollgar botnet has managed to infect around 3k MSSQL DB servers daily

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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. and Windows Script Host Object Model (wshom).

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GoDaddy Employees Used in Attacks on Multiple Cryptocurrency Services

Krebs on Security

18 Central European Time (CET), cyptocurrency mining service NiceHash disccovered that some of the settings for its domain registration records at GoDaddy were changed without authorization, briefly redirecting email and web traffic for the site. . ” In the early morning hours of Nov.

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NAGARA Webinar – Mining Our Past, Engineering Our Future – Registration and Fee Required – 5 Credits

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NAGARA’s 2020 Summer Online Forum: Mining Our Past, Engineering Our Future is on Friday, July 31, 2020! The post NAGARA Webinar – Mining Our Past, Engineering Our Future – Registration and Fee Required – 5 Credits appeared first on IG GURU. Remember, this event has been pre-approved for 5.0

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