Info Source

MAY 13, 2020

Global survey results released today found that process knowledge is the primary success factor for robotic process automation (RPA) projects, yet only 31% of US organizations are currently using process mining tools to understand their processes. Process mining . Financial planning & decision-making. Improving customer experience.

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IBM Big Data Hub

AUGUST 15, 2022

To help data scientists reflect and identify possible ethical concerns the standard process for data mining should include 3 additional steps: data risk assessment, model risk assessment and production monitoring. For example, we still observe that men are accepted on managerial position more frequently than women.

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Security Affairs

JULY 24, 2018

As an example, a specific Android TV device was also found to ship in this condition.” ” The binary establishes a connection to the C&C server, then scans processes running on the compromised device and attempts to kill any that are running the CoinHive script that could be mining Monero. 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. For example, 2023 had one of the lowest property damage losses for the hydrocarbon industry. Examples might include “has a service order been placed for our next fire safety inspection?”

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IBM Big Data Hub

APRIL 20, 2023

All are transforming their procurement operations by leveraging state-of-the-art process mining and intelligent automation technology. A Process Mining exercise drawing data from enterprise SAP has helped measure KPI performance and define the transformation roadmap. dollars annually in direct or indirect procurement.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 28, 2021

In Bitcoin, for example, a process known as “Proof-of-Work” (“PoW”) involves miners solving a difficult mathematical problem with powerful computers. The presence of hashrate rental marketplaces like NiceHash make acquiring the required mining power easy; an attacker could rewrite an entire day of Bitcoin SV’s blockchain for less than $150k.

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CGI

JANUARY 10, 2018

Envisioning new and hidden realities with data and augmented reality—a digital “twin city” example. For example, a supermarket that makes home grocery deliveries has empty vehicles returning from those deliveries. Take a modern film, for example. Wed, 01/10/2018 - 15:25. Using data to create new value chains.

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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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Krebs on Security

JULY 29, 2021

There, denizens with computer rigs that are built primarily for mining virtual currencies can set to work using those systems to crack passwords. But a decent crypto-mining rig can quickly crack a majority of password hashes generated with MD5 (one of the weaker and more commonly-used password hashing algorithms).

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The malware was employed in cryptocurrency mining campaigns and to launch denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. When analyzing the cryptomining activity, the experts noticed that operators used crypto wallets allegedly chosen randomly to contribute to various mining pools. .

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Unwritten Record

MARCH 20, 2024

Many miners in the area come from farm families and are saving money to go back to their farms but will stay in the mines as long as there is “good money” Kingston Pocahontas Coal Company, Exeter Mine, Big Sandy Housing Camp, Welch, McDowell County, West Virginia, April 10, 1946. June 13, 1946.

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Daymark

APRIL 6, 2021

For example, if a password I use frequently (maybe even a strong one) is exposed in a breach of an e-commerce company. The malicious actor located in Moscow who obtains this userID (likely an email of mine) and password then does a quick lookup on LinkedIn and finds that I work at Daymark.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 7, 2023

Typically, scammers want to get ahold of an email because it’s a gold mine of information. For example, attackers may hope people won’t notice purchase confirmations or password change requests when intermingled with an enormous amount of spam. For example, people could use one to sign up for things and another for sensitive records.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 10, 2023

Grasping these opportunities at IBM, we’re increasingly building our specialism in process mining and data analysis tools and techniques we believe to be true ‘game changers’ when it comes to building cultures of continuous change and innovation. So how do you spot this early, and react or even prevent this in a timely and effective manner?

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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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IT Governance

MARCH 29, 2022

Perhaps the most significant example of this is the Cloud. Then there’s blockchain mining. In the early days of bitcoin mining, individuals could create new bitcoins using a standard computer set-up, but the process has grown so complex that it now requires a room full of specialised tools. public Clouds and 2.7 private ones.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 13, 2021

For example, the AWS CLI uses environment variables and configuration files that can be exfiltrated by exploiting CVE-2021-22448. ” Talos researchers also updated the list of IOCs to include information about mining activity carried out by exploiting the CVE-2021-44228 flaw. .”

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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The report recommends that regulators should 1) enforce minimum security standards for manufacturers of IoT devices, 2) incentivize higher levels of security through public contracting, and 3) try to align IoT standards internationally (for example, international guidance on handling connected devices that stop receiving security updates).

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Unwritten Record

OCTOBER 22, 2024

However, as the ship entered the largest channel, it struck an American mine. The mine was unfortunately omitted from the ship’s sailing orders for the day. The first mine struck near the engine room, and shortly after a second mine would hit near the stern. Soldiers clambering down the side by rope and net.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 28, 2024

The M1, for example, has two clusters: one containing four efficiency cores and the other four performance cores. As long as the GoFetch app and the targeted cryptography app are running on the same performance cluster—­even when on separate cores within that cluster­—GoFetch can mine enough secrets to leak a secret key.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

The malicious code uses i2p to download malicious components and send mined currency to the attacker’s wallet. The researchers noticed similarities with other examples reported by Trend Micro in February 2022. This malware relies on the i2p (Invisible Internet Project) anonymization network for communication.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 30, 2020

In 2018, KrebsOnSecurity unmasked the creators of Coinhive — a now-defunct cryptocurrency mining service that was being massively abused by cybercriminals — as the administrators of a popular German language image-hosting forum. ”

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Security Affairs

JULY 29, 2020

The ongoing Ngrok mining botnet campaign is targeting servers are hosted on popular cloud platforms, including Alibaba Cloud, Azure, and AWS. “ Ngrok Mining Botnet is an active campaign targeting exposed Docker servers in AWS, Azure, and other cloud platforms. .” An example domain would be: 6d77335c4f23[.]ddns[.]net

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Security Affairs

JUNE 1, 2019

“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.” ” continues the report.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

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. Upon infecting Docker and Kubernetes systems running on top of AWS servers, the bot scans for ~/.aws/credentials

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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. and Windows Script Host Object Model (wshom).

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 13, 2018

However, these fraudsters don’t really care about snatching up your credentials or mine. By now, your personal information and mine has been hacked multiple times and is readily on sale in the Dark Web. The most recent example comes from Timehop, a service that enables social media users to plug into their past.

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CILIP

JULY 22, 2024

Glen gave some great examples of how IIIF can help organisations and researchers, and how AI tools might work with IIIF collections. He highlighted the intellectual property questions that 'open access' collections being mined for AI models raises, and pointed people to HaveIBeenTrained to see if their collections have been scraped.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 7, 2021

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. For example, the site dont.farm was used to sell access to compromised Google and Facebook advertising account.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2020

Experts uncovered a hacking campaign that is breaching Docker clusters to deploy a new crypto-mining malware tracked as Kinsing. ” The Kinsing malware abuses the resources of the Docker installations to mine cryptocurrency, hackers exploit unprotected open Docker API port to instantiate an Ubuntu container. “The spre.

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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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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 8, 2024

I recently attended an IoActive-sponsored event in Seattle at which Pegueros gave a presentation titled: “Merging Cybersecurity, the Board & Executive Team” Pegueros shed light on the land mines that enshroud cybersecurity presentations made at the board level. Compliance brings visibility to a topic.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 7, 2021

Experts discovered an announcement made on April 20, 2021 by the administrators of a hacking forum that inviting participants into proposing new techniques to steal private keys and wallets, devise unusual cryptocurrency mining software, compromise smart contracts and non-fungible tokens (NFTs). ” concludes the post.

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CGI

JULY 5, 2018

A new and quickly spreading phenomenon is to steal computing power to mine cryptocurrencies. What is most alarming is that, in addition to advanced cyber attacks aimed at elaborate systems, criminals will use any device connected to the Internet – for example, your mobile phone or a remotely controlled heat pump.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 20, 2024

.” Threat actors can deploy ransomware as a final payload, for example, one of the earliest actors that the experts spotted exploiting the above issues deployed a variant of the open-source Jasmin ransomware.

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OpenText Information Management

APRIL 17, 2024

But the reality is that the challenges my children will face will be vastly bigger than mine. We’ve already seen so many examples of it happening. No television, no personal cell phones, and don’t ask me about my first computer (which had less capacity than my current iPhone 8). As OpenText™ CEO and CTO, Mark J.

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Security Affairs

JULY 25, 2021

An example of an attack found in the wild, launching a popular cryptocurrency miner container” A Workflow is the core resource in Argo and is defined using a YAML file containing a “spec” for the type of work to be performed. ” states the analysis published by Intezer.

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