Honeypots Mining Passwords 
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. Top 10 countries from which Kaspersky traps were hit by Telnet password attacks is led by Brazil, China, and Japan. What is infecting IoT devices and how?
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.” ” Cashdollar concludes.
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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.
eSecurity Planet
APRIL 11, 2022
They sneak around the fringes of the enterprise, seeking a way inside, which they might accomplish by tricking a user into clicking on a malicious link, opening an infected attachment or providing credentials and passwords, or perhaps by hacking an unpatched or zero-day vulnerability. Key Differentiators.
Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing
JUNE 12, 2018
For years identity management has relied on three factors for authentication: What one knows (passwords). 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. What one has (tokens).
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.
ForAllSecure
MAY 2, 2023
You had to figure out how to configure Kermit, get passwords to get on. Mine was 2000. All those exercises, the honeypot or honeynet challenges I think that's what they were called in. Hacker was more about the pursuit of knowledge. And that pursuit of knowledge because it was harder to find things that weren't search engines.
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