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Atlassian Confluence bug CVE-2022-26134 exploited in cryptocurrency mining campaign

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Threat actors are targeting unpatched Atlassian Confluence servers as part of an ongoing crypto mining campaign. Trend Micro researchers warn of an ongoing crypto mining campaign targeting Atlassian Confluence servers affected by the CVE-2022-26134 vulnerability. The gap is being abused for malicious cryptocurrency mining.”

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Prometei, a new modular crypto-mining botnet exploits Windows SMB

Security Affairs

JULY 22, 2020

Prometei is a crypto-mining botnet that recently appeared in the threat landscape, it exploits the Microsoft Windows SMB protocol for lateral movements. Security experts from Cisco Talos discovered a new crypto-mining botnet, tracked as Prometei, that exploits the Microsoft Windows SMB protocol for lateral movements.

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Microsoft warns of Dexphot miner, an interesting polymorphic threat

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NOVEMBER 26, 2019

The malicious code abuse of the resources of the infected machine to mine cryptocurrency , according to the experts it has already infected 80,000 computers worldwide. Layers of obfuscation, encryption, and the use of randomized file names hid the installation process. ”reads the analysis published by Microsoft.

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Crackonosh Monero miner made $2M after infecting 222,000 Win systems

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JUNE 27, 2021

Researchers have discovered a strain of cryptocurrency-mining malware, tracked as Crackonosh, that abuses Windows Safe mode to avoid detection. . The final stage of the Crackonosh attack chain is the installation of the coinminer XMRig to mine the Monero (XMR) cryptocurrency. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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A new Linux Botnet abuses IaC Tools to spread and other emerging techniques

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APRIL 23, 2021

The botnet is currently involved in cryptocurrency mining activity, it delivers the XMRig Monero (XMR) miner onto the infected machines. The binary includes a configuration file and unlike other cryptocurrency miners, it uses its own mining pool instead of public pools to make tracking attackers even more difficult.

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Crooks spread malware via pirated movies during COVID-19 outbreak

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APRIL 30, 2020

Experts observed an ongoing coin miner campaign that injects a malicious VBScript into ZIP files posing as movie downloads. The campaign primarily targets users in Spain and South American countries, aims to launch a coin-mining shellcode directly in memory. ” reads the Tweet published by the Microsoft Security Intelligence team.

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Multiple threat actors exploit PHP flaw CVE-2024-4577 to deliver malware

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JULY 11, 2024

The botnet shell script downloads an ELF file named “pty3” from a different IP address, likely a sample of Muhstik malware. The attackers injected a command that relies on a PowerShell script to download and execute a script to spin up XMRig from a remote mining pool.

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New NRSMiner cryptominer NSA-Linked EternalBlue Exploit

Security Affairs

JANUARY 4, 2019

This malicious code first installs a service named snmpstorsrv , with snmpstorsrv.dll registered as servicedll. The service creates multiple threads to carry out several malicious activities, such as data exfiltration and mining. One of the unzipped files named svchost.exe is the Eternalblue – 2.2.0 exploit executable.

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ExCobalt Cybercrime group targets Russian organizations in multiple sectors

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JUNE 24, 2024

Over the past year, ExCobalt targeted Russian organizations in the the following industries: Metallurgy Telecommunications Mining Information technology Government Software development The Cobalt’s hallmark was the use of the CobInt tool , the same tool that ExCobalt began using in 2022.

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Outlaw is Back, a New Crypto-Botnet Targets European Organizations

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APRIL 28, 2020

This directory contains the crypto mining module named kswapd0. In this folder, the first one to be executed is the file “a”. The script looks like the following: Figure 5: Content of the “a” file. The executed crypto miner is the file named “” kswapd0 ” based on the famous XMRIG monero crypto miner.

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The Long Run of Shade Ransomware

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

The phishing email contains a.zip file named “slavneft.zakaz.zip”, which means something like “slavneft order” in English, showing a direct reference to “Slavneft”. It contains a russian speaking JavaScript file named “«??? «??? «?????????» ??????????? ??????”, Information about miner executable. Conclusions.

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Ransomware, Trojan and Miner together against “PIK-Group”

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

When an unknown sender suggests me to click on a super wired url , dropping a ZIP file straight in my box, by saying it’s getting the next targeted attack on a huge company, well I kinda looking forward to it! So I clicked on the link (see IOC section) and I’ve downloaded a “pik.zip” file. You might want to checkout more here.

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BlackSquid malware uses multiple exploits to drop cryptocurrency miners

Security Affairs

JUNE 5, 2019

“This malware, which we named BlackSquid after the registries created and main component file names, is particularly dangerous for several reasons.” “Simultaneous with its attacks, BlackSquid also downloads and executes two XMRig cryptocurrency-mining components.! ” states Trend Micro.

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Crooks exploit exposed Docker APIs to build AESDDoS botnet

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JUNE 15, 2019

. “A batch file first executes the WinEggDrop scanner (s.exe), which tries port 2375 on various hosts with Chinese IP address ranges specified in the ip.txt file.” “The output of this command is saved into a file named ips.txt, which is then fed into the Docker.exe file.

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Multiple threat actors are targeting Elasticsearch Clusters

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FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Cisco Talos experts have reported a spike in the attacks that leverage known flaws to compromise unsecured Elasticsearch clusters and use them to mine crypto-currencies. Security researchers at Cisco Talos are warning of a spike in attacks on unsecured Elasticsearch clusters to drop cryptocurrency miners.

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Experts spotted P2P worm spreading Crypto-Miners in the wild

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JULY 23, 2019

Recently, our threat monitoring operations pointed us to an interesting file named “ Lucio Dalla Discografia Completa ”: this file pretends to be a collection of the discography of a famous I talian singer, but it actually hides malicious intents. . Code Snippet 1: Copy of the files in a subfolder. tmp” and “64.tmp”,

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The 773 Million Record "Collection #1" Data Breach

Troy Hunt

JANUARY 16, 2019

A password manager provides you with a secure vault for all your secrets to be stored in (not just passwords, I store things like credit card and banking info in mine too), and its sole purpose is to focus on keeping them safe and secure. It'll require some coding, but's its straightforward and fully documented.

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Nansh0u campaign already infected 50,000 MS-SQL and PHPMyAdmin Servers

Security Affairs

MAY 29, 2019

The payloads used in this campaign were droppers used to deliver a cryptocurrency miner to mine TurtleCoin cryptocurrency. Experts observed many payloads dropping a kernel-mode driver using ransom file names and placed them in AppData/Local/Temp. .” continues the analysis.

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Inside the "3 Billion People" National Public Data Breach

Troy Hunt

AUGUST 13, 2024

Do take note of the file name in the embedded image, though - "people_data-935660398-959524741.csv" I did actually receive that data but filed it away and didn't load it into HIBP as there were no email addresses in it. I wonder if the data from that story lines up with the file in the image above?

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 14, 2024

The researchers are calling the malware Perfctl, the name of a malicious component that surreptitiously mines cryptocurrency. The unknown developers of the malware gave the process a name that combines the perf Linux monitoring tool and ctl, an abbreviation commonly used with command line tools.

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Gab Has Been Breached

Troy Hunt

MARCH 3, 2021

Because I myself have a Gab account which I created when started making commentary on them and Parler in Jan, naturally the first thing I did was to pull out my own record: Looking into the (alleged) @getongab data breach, many records don't have an email address or a password hash (mine has the former, but not the latter). Coincidence?

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Atlassian Confluence bug CVE-2022-26134 exploited in cryptocurrency mining campaign

Prometei, a new modular crypto-mining botnet exploits Windows SMB

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Microsoft warns of Dexphot miner, an interesting polymorphic threat

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Crackonosh Monero miner made $2M after infecting 222,000 Win systems

A new Linux Botnet abuses IaC Tools to spread and other emerging techniques

Crooks spread malware via pirated movies during COVID-19 outbreak

Multiple threat actors exploit PHP flaw CVE-2024-4577 to deliver malware

New NRSMiner cryptominer NSA-Linked EternalBlue Exploit

ExCobalt Cybercrime group targets Russian organizations in multiple sectors

Outlaw is Back, a New Crypto-Botnet Targets European Organizations

The Long Run of Shade Ransomware

Ransomware, Trojan and Miner together against “PIK-Group”

BlackSquid malware uses multiple exploits to drop cryptocurrency miners

Crooks exploit exposed Docker APIs to build AESDDoS botnet

Multiple threat actors are targeting Elasticsearch Clusters

Experts spotted P2P worm spreading Crypto-Miners in the wild

The 773 Million Record "Collection #1" Data Breach

Nansh0u campaign already infected 50,000 MS-SQL and PHPMyAdmin Servers

Inside the "3 Billion People" National Public Data Breach

Perfectl Malware

Gab Has Been Breached

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