Security Affairs

JANUARY 28, 2021

The TeamTNT botnet is a crypto-mining malware operation that has been active since April 2020 and that targets Docker installs. ” The “preloading” technique allows the system to load a custom shared library before other system libraries are loaded. Download the latest IRC bot configuration. Pierluigi Paganini.

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CILIP

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Apprentice Library Assistant. Working in a library was always a goal of mine, but I was never quite sure how to get there. Getting into my apprenticeship with Southmead Library was a fruitful result of a vigilant library career quest, including countless job searches and CV tweaks. Learning Journey ?

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CILIP

JULY 22, 2024

AI and the Digital Humanities at CILIP Conference 2024 Photo of Mia Ridge, Digital Curator at the British Library Digital Curator at the British Library, Mia Ridge reflects on the ‘AI and the digital humanities’ session at CILIP Conference 2024.

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Archive-It

AUGUST 29, 2024

by the Archive-It team Archive-it and Community Webs annual meeting recaps The Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago Harold Washington Library Center Winter Garden (Image: Spiro Bolos, CC BY-SA 2.0) Community News Buncombe County Public Library’s scanning table at the Southside United Neighborhood Association reunion, October 21, 2023.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 23, 2021

CISA warned of crypto-mining malware hidden in a popular JavaScript NPM library, named UAParser.js, which has millions of weekly downloads. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency published an advisory to warn of the discovery of a crypto-mining malware in the popular NPM Package UAParser.js.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2024

It’s a PPSX file, seemingly an outdated US Army manual for tank mine clearing blades (MCB). The payload includes a dynamic-link library (vpn.sessings) that injects the post-exploitation tool Cobalt Strike Beacon into memory and awaits commands from the C2 server. ppsx) file uploaded from Ukraine to VirusTotal at the end of 2023.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Threat actors are already abusing Log4Shell vulnerability in the Log4j library for malicious purposes such as deploying malware. 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.

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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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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Unfortunately, however, the BBC reports that there are a few “teething troubles […] with some users saying their privacy has been compromised after responding to an on-screen prompt asking for access to their photo library. The app then still […] accesses the photo library whether the user denies access or not.”. What’s that?

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Schneier on Security

JULY 11, 2023

The Washington Post has an article about popular printing services, and whether or not they read your documents and mine the data when you use them for printing: Ideally, printing services should avoid storing the content of your files, or at least delete daily. Some services, like the New York Public Library and PrintWithMe, do both.

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Archive-It

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Please join us to learn about CARTA, a collaborative team of art libraries building collections of web archives related to art history and contemporary art practice. CARTA Information Session We will be hosting a Collaborative ART Archive (CARTA) information session on November 8th!

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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. It also hides malicious processes using library injection and encrypts the malicious payload. aws/credentials and ~/.aws/config

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IBM Big Data Hub

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Just a few weeks ago, IBM announced an expansion to their embeddable AI software portfolio with the release of three containerized Watson libraries. The new libraries include: IBM Watson Natural Language Processing Library for Embed. IBM Watson Speech-to-Text Library for Embed. Think of embeddable AI as an engine.

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Archive-It

MAY 8, 2023

by the Community Programs team This Spring, the Internet Archive hosted two in-person workshops aimed at helping to advance library support for web archive research: Digital Scholarship & the Web and Art Resources on the Web. Participants were then introduced to Archives Research Compute Hub (ARCH).

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Archive-It

MAY 8, 2023

by the Community Programs team This Spring, the Internet Archive hosted two in-person workshops aimed at helping to advance library support for web archive research: Digital Scholarship & the Web and Art Resources on the Web. Participants were then introduced to Archives Research Compute Hub (ARCH).

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CILIP

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Working Internationally for Libraries: How to write effective grant proposals. I had heard about the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) during my MSc, but I didn?t From her description, it sounded like an exceptional opportunity for learning what libraries all over the world are doing and for networking.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 31, 2021

“LD_PRELOAD forces binaries to load specific libraries before others, allowing the preloaded libraries to override any function from any library. . “LD_PRELOAD forces binaries to load specific libraries before others, allowing the preloaded libraries to override any function from any library.

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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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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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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

The malicious Monero (XMR) Coinhive cryptomining scripts were delivered leveraging the Google’s legitimate Google Tag Manager (GTM) library. “As soon as the apps are downloaded and launched, they fetch a coin-mining JavaScript library by triggering Google Tag Manager (GTM) in their domain servers.

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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. It has been active for at least two years.”

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Archive-It

AUGUST 16, 2023

Public Library’s Martin Luther King Jr. 2023-08-10: Web Archiving and Digital Libraries (WADL) Workshop 2023 Trip Report Kritika Garg shares a recap of the WADL workshop, including overviews of each presentation + slides. Check out our event recaps to see what we’ve been up to. We’re Hiring! Our team is growing!

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Archive-It

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

In line with our goal to make computational research (text and data mining, AI, machine learning, etc.) and education with digital collections more accessible we are introducing ARCHWay – a free to use ARCH service tier.

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Archive-It

AUGUST 10, 2023

Public Library’s Martin Luther King Jr. In the second hour, Ruth Bryan, University Archivist from the University of Kentucky (UK) Special Collections Research Center (SCRC) presented UK Libraries’ Wildcat Histories: Preserving Student Activist Social Media Content. Memorial branch.

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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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IBM Big Data Hub

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Open-source AI projects and libraries, freely available on platforms like GitHub, fuel digital innovation in industries like healthcare, finance and education. Leveraging existing libraries and tools, small teams of developers can build valuable applications for diverse platforms like Microsoft Windows, Linux, iOS and Android.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

“The new implementation uses a public SCP library written in Golang in GitHub. It is, however, notable that the writers of the SCP library are located in China.” In just one month, the threat infected a total of 1,500 hosts. ” reads the report published by Akamai. ” continues the report.

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CILIP

MARCH 19, 2021

ve read that only seven libraries have been taken to court in the UK. As chair of a university library committee, she has followed the current ebook pricing controversy and believes it is a symptom of a deeper problem. ? But even if she didn? They should ask ?what?s s the worst thing that can happen?? And if they?re t even know if you?re

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 5, 2022

Microsoft is warning of continuing attempts by nation-state actors and cybercriminals to exploit recently discovered vulnerabilities in the Apache Log4j library to deploy malware on vulnerable systems. “Exploitation attempts and testing have remained high during the last weeks of December.

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Archive-It

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Visualization presented at the Humanities and the Web: Introduction to Web Archive Data Analysis, November 14, 2022, Los Angeles Public Library. ICYMI: National Library of History Talk “What’s in a Web Archive Collection” now online. Highland Park Archives and Local History Collections, Highland Park Public Library.

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Collibra

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Cloud storage, text mining and social network analytics are vital 21 st century tools. King Ptolemy I Soter set about creating the largest collection of data (then) known to man, an institution known as the Library of Alexandria. . All of this had to be synchronized, otherwise the project would stall. Data collection is what we do.

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Unwritten Record

JUNE 17, 2020

The film, West Virginia and Its Natural Resources , was part of the film library of the Bureau of Mines. The film, West Virginia and Its Natural Resources , was part of the film library of the Bureau of Mines. Such demand allowed for the coal industry in West Virginia to flourish and those who owned mines profited.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 8, 2019

The adware applications were linked together by the use of third-party Android libraries, which bypass the background service restrictions present in newer Android versions. However, our analysts were able to detect it because apps using these libraries waste the user’s battery and make the device slower.

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CILIP

JANUARY 23, 2023

THROUGHOUT history, libraries have been grounded in physical artefacts and a sense of place – in print books and library buildings. The advent of digital collections, and the notion of a ‘digital library’, prompted something of an existential crisis, presaging the potential demise of libraries as physical places.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

bin, researchers also observed the use of a cryptocurrency mining module. . Experts at Cybereason Nocturnus have uncovered an active campaign targeting the users of a large e-commerce platform in Latin America with malware tracked as Chaes. In 2019, over 320 million users were registered with the MercadoLivre e-commerce platform. .

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

“I suspect it’s probably a derivate of other IoT crypto mining botnets,” Cashdollar told The Register. “I suspect it’s probably a derivate of other IoT crypto mining botnets,” Cashdollar told The Register. “The malware is uploaded as gzip compressed tarball archives of binaries, scripts, and libraries.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

These files have been identified as variants of the XMRIG cryptocurrency mining software. . “CISA obtained four malicious files for analysis during an on-site incident response engagement at a Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) organization compromised by Iranian government sponsored advanced persistent threat (APT) actors.”

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