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. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

The flaw was discovered by the security researcher Voidfyoo from Chaitin Security Research Lab, it was addressed in Oracle’s October 2020 Critical Patch Update. In early November, Oracle issued an out-of-band security update to address another critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2020-14882.

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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

JULY 11, 2024

Multiple threat actors exploit a recently disclosed security PHP flaw CVE-2024-4577 to deliver multiple malware families. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added the the vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. ” reported Akamai. . ” reported Akamai. In June, the U.S.

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

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Security experts from Kaspersky have published an interesting report on the new trends in the IoT threat landscape. 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. Security Affairs – IoT devices, hacking ).

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 28, 2021

The Shadowserver Foundation , a nonprofit that helps network owners identify and fix security threats , says it has found 21,248 different Exchange servers which appear to be compromised by a backdoor and communicating with brian[.]krebsonsecurity[.]top Just my Social Security number. krebsonsecurity[.]top I’d been doxed via DNS.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 10, 2019

Security experts from Trend Micro have discovered a new strain of coin miner that targets the Linux platform and installs the XMR-Stak Cryptonight cryptocurrency miner. “It installs a cryptocurrency-mining malware as well as implant itself into the system and crontabs to survive reboots and deletions.” Pierluigi Paganini.

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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

Security researchers at Cisco Talos are warning of a spike in attacks on unsecured Elasticsearch clusters to drop cryptocurrency miners. 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. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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

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. System administrators need to employ security best practices with the systems they manage.”

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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. The post Log4j Vulnerability Aftermath appeared first on Security Affairs. Coinminers.

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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. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

The Australian Signals Directorate’s Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) warns businesses and netizens of Emotet and BlueKeep attacks in the wild. “There are two concerning cyber security threats in the wild. The popular expert Kevin Beaumont observed some of its EternalPot RDP honeypots crashing after being attacked.

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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. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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. Also read: Top Container Security Solutions. The attackers hijack the idle processing power of the targeted machines to mine cryptocurrency.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

There’s no doubt that monitoring and continually updating all parts of a multi-tiered security system is a must-do best practice. Tweaking one system can open fresh, unforeseen security holes in another. DeSanto: When you think about it, security and performance are usually hooked at the hip. LW: How has CyberFlood worked out?

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 11, 2022

Security vendors and startups use deception techniques to confuse and befuddle attackers. By masking high-value assets in a sea of fake attack surfaces, attackers are disoriented and attack a fake asset, in the process alerting security teams to their presence. But it can work the other way. What is Deception Technology?

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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. Focus on Enhanced Security. This is how big data analytics is enabling behavioral biometric-authentication mechanisms.

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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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ForAllSecure

MAY 2, 2023

Mine was 2000. All those exercises, the honeypot or honeynet challenges I think that's what they were called in. And so, myself and another individual named Rob Farrell, we were brought in to start a security team. of pleasure, or rage, where operational security levels are much lower. Let's analyze stuff.

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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. Image: Shutterstock. Some of the AI chat bot characters offered by Chub.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 4, 2023

James Campbell, CEO of Cado Security , shares his experience with traditional incident response, and how the cloud, with its elastic structure, able to spin up and spin down instances, is changing incident response. MUSIC] VAMOSI: If you haven’t been paying attention, cloud security is critical right now.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2024

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