Security Affairs

DECEMBER 13, 2021

A few hours ago, researchers at NetLab 360 reported that their Anglerfish and Apacket honeypots were already hit by attacks attempting to trigger the Log4Shell flaw in the Log4j library. ” 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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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

Renato Marinho, a security researcher at Morphus Labs and SANS ISC handler reported that the WebLogic honeypots he set up were targeted by a large number of scans for CVE-2020–14882. “Starting late last week, we observed a large number of scans against our WebLogic honeypots to detect if they are vulnerable to CVE-2020–14882.”

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 10, 2022

Experts linked the C2 infrastructure behind an the Abcbot botnet to a cryptocurrency-mining botnet attack that was uncovered in December 2020. Experts linked the infrastructure used by the Abcbot DDoS botnet to the operations of a cryptocurrency-mining botnet that was uncovered in December 2020.

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Security Affairs

MAY 6, 2022

Uptycs researchers identified ongoing malicious campaigns through our Docker honeypot targeting exposed Docker API. The Uptycs Threat Research team has identified ongoing malicious campaigns through our Docker honeypot targeting exposed Docker API port 2375. Figure 7:honeypot log – crypto miner attack. Figure 8: aaa.sh

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

A new malware campaign targets Redis servers to deploy the mining crypto miner Migo on compromised Linux hosts. One of the honeypots used by Cado was targeted by an attack originating from the IP 103[.]79[.]118[.]221 Caro Security researchers have observed a new malware campaign targeting Redis servers with a crypto miner dubbed Migo.

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Security Affairs

JULY 11, 2024

. “Threat actors continued the speedy-time-from-disclosure-to-exploitation trend and were quick to leverage this new vulnerability — we observed exploit attempts targeting this PHP flaw on our honeypot network within 24 hours of its disclosure.” ” reported Akamai. The flaw CVE-2024-4577 (CVSS score: 9.8)

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

The researchers set up a honeypot to collect data on infected IoT devices, the way threat actors infect IoT devices and what families of malware are involved. “More and more exploits are being weaponized by cybercriminals, and infected devices are used to steal personal data and mine cryptocurrencies, on top of traditional DDoS attacks.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 28, 2021

The group looks for attacks on Exchange systems using a combination of active Internet scans and “honeypots” — systems left vulnerable to attack so that defenders can study what attackers are doing to the devices and how. “We have been testing 367 known web shell paths via scanning of Exchange servers.”

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 10, 2019

The experts detected a coinminer script on one of their honeypots and, the malicious code shares some parts with the Xbash malware and the KORKERDS cryptocurrency miner that leverages rootkit to avoid detection. ” reads the analysis published by Trend Micro. ” reads the analysis published by Trend Micro.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

The popular expert Kevin Beaumont observed some of its EternalPot RDP honeypots crashing after being attacked. huh, the EternalPot RDP honeypots have all started BSOD'ing recently. They only expose port 3389. pic.twitter.com/VdiKoqAwkr — Kevin Beaumont (@GossiTheDog) November 2, 2019.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 22, 2019

Trend Micro recently discovered an Android crypto-currency mining botnet that can spread via open ADB (Android Debug Bridge) ports and Secure Shell (SSH). Security researchers at Trend Micro have discovered an new Android crypto-currency mining botnet that spreads via open ADB ( Android Debug Bridge ) ports and Secure Shell (SSH).

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Security Affairs

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. “Through ongoing analysis of honeypot traffic, Talos detected an increase in attacks targeting unsecured Elasticsearch clusters. .”

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Using our threat intelligence systems and honeypot, the Uptycs threat research team identified different kinds of payloads dropped on the vulnerable servers. Xmrig is an open sourced Monero CPU Miner used to mine Monero cryptocurrency. Coinminers. Figure 1: Shell script downloading and executing Xmrig.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

The researchers revealed that one of his honeypots was hit by this IoT malware that targets Intel machines running Linux. “I suspect it’s probably a derivate of other IoT crypto mining botnets,” Cashdollar told The Register. “This one seems to target enterprise systems.”

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

In the first week of September, AquaSec researchers identified at least three different attacks targeting their honeypots, the experts associated them with the cybercrime gang TeamTNT. The TeamTNT botnet is a crypto-mining malware operation that has been active since April 2020 and targets Docker installs.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

. “The Australian Signals Directorate’s Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC), with its state and territory partners, is continuing to respond to the widespread malware campaign known as Emotet while responding to reports that hackers are exploiting the BlueKeep vulnerability to mine cryptocurrency.” They only expose port 3389.

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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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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

However, the researchers are convinced the threat actor is back, as their honeypots identified TeamTNT signatures and tools in a series of three attacks during the first week of September. The attackers hijack the idle processing power of the targeted machines to mine cryptocurrency.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Spirent refers to this as “data breach emulation,’’ something David DeSanto, Spirent’s threat research director, told me is designed to give companyies a great advantage; it makes it possible to see precisely how the latest ransomware or crypto mining malware would impact a specific network, with all of its quirky complexity.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 11, 2022

It identifies unauthorized queries attempting to mine AD for data, hides sensitive or privileged AD query results (such as AD domain admins, domain controllers, SPNs, and others), and inserts fake results that point to decoy systems. Acalvio’s Deception Farm architecture and ShadowPlex application centralizes the deception process.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 12, 2018

However, when analyzed by new algorithmic data mining methods, big data can reveal patterns, trends, and associations that can, among other things, relate to human behavior and interactions. Merriam-Webster defines big data as “an accumulation of data that is too large and complex for processing by traditional database management tools.”

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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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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 3, 2024

.” Ian Ahl , senior vice president of threat research at Permiso, said attackers in possession of a working cloud account traditionally have used that access for run-of-the-mill financial cybercrime, such as cryptocurrency mining or spam. “And these are typically things the large language models won’t be able to talk about.”

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ForAllSecure

MAY 2, 2023

Mine was 2000. All those exercises, the honeypot or honeynet challenges I think that's what they were called in. It's a personal dynamic, you know, it's, and that's what the old 2600 used to be like the you know VAMOSI: Again, Daniel is bona fide old school hacker. Daniel’s first Black HAt was in 1999. Let's analyze stuff.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 4, 2023

They do like crypto mining and containers and stuff. So seems relatively benign, but one thing a lot of people don't realize is that they have a detection for crypto mining and they'll just destroy the system. But one thing this group does with their core team TNT, by the way, is they actually still have some Cloud credentials.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2024

National Charged with Multimillion-Dollar Hack-to-Trade Fraud Scheme Crooked Cops, Stolen Laptops & the Ghost of UGNazi Investigating Infrastructure and Tactics of Phishing-as-a-Service Platform Sniper Dz Police arrest four suspects linked to LockBit ransomware gang How the FBI and Mandiant caught a ‘serial hacker’ who tried to fake his own death (..)

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John Battelle's Searchblog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

To quote Dorsey (emphasis mine): “Today we’re committing to the people and this committee to do that work and do it openly. We’re here to contribute to a healthy public square, not compete to have the only one.

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