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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OpenText Information Management

MAY 30, 2024

OpenText™ is thrilled to announce that our IDOL™ platform has been named a leader in Forrester's recent vendor evaluation for document mining and analytics providers. Discover the Power of OpenText IDOL OpenText IDOL offers advanced AI-driven document mining and analytics to manage and extract insights from diverse data sources.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

APRIL 19, 2024

Author’s musical preferences not included… No Longer Mine When I write, I like to listen to music. I Want To Mine This raises much larger issues about how – or whether – we are intelligently architecting the possibilities that define our interaction with knowledge. The original MusicPlasma interface.

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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

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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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

JANUARY 18, 2019

The Commons FileUpload library is the default file upload mechanism in Struts 2, the CVE-2016-1000031 was discovered two years ago by experts at Tenable. The advisory fixed the CVE-2016-1000031 flaw, a remote code execution (RCE) bug in the Apache Commons FileUpload, disclosed in November last year.

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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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Security Affairs

JUNE 5, 2019

“Simultaneous with its attacks, BlackSquid also downloads and executes two XMRig cryptocurrency-mining components.! A new piece of malware appeared in the threat landscape, dubbed BlackSquid it targets web servers with several exploits to deliver cryptocurrency miners. ” states Trend Micro. continues the analysis.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 22, 2020

“can u edit that comment out, @tankska is a gaming twitter of mine and i dont want it to be on ogu :D’,” lol wrote. “can u edit that comment out, @tankska is a gaming twitter of mine and i dont want it to be on ogu :D’,” lol wrote. They would take a cut from each transaction.”

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

This makes government networks even more vulnerable and hackers see them as a gold mine. If they can do that by stealing personally identifiable information or any of the other valuable things from a government institution, whether it’s a library or a court system, they’ll do just that.”. City agencies were unable to collect payment.

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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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Imperial Violet

JUNE 25, 2016

Emphasis is mine.). says that passing a NULL pointer to a standard library function is undefined behaviour, therefore if dest was NULL any behaviour is reasonable. can be applied to any standard library function. I'm sure that 7.1.4 If you read 7.24.2.1 The compiler's reasoning goes like this: 7.1.4 Section 7.1.4 Measurement.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 31, 2021

I'll give you a perfect example of that last point: in Feb 2018 I wrote about The JavaScript Supply Chain Paradox: SRI, CSP and Trust in Third Party Libraries wherein someone had compromised a JS file on the Browsealoud service and injected the Coinhive script into it. You know how people don't like ads? The website is dead.

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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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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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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Between January and February, a new, intense, ransomware campaign has been observed by many security firms. 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”. corresponding another time to “PAO NGK Slavneft order details”.

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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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IT Governance

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Welcome to our September 2022 list of data breaches and cyber attacks. Compared to August, it was a comparatively quiet month, as we identified 88 publicly disclosed security incidents and 35,566,046 compromised records. However, we’d like to know more about how our readers use this data, and what you’d like to see in this list in the future.

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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

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

CRON#TRAP: Emulated Linux Environments as the Latest Tactic in Malware Staging Typosquat Campaign Targeting npm Developers ToxicPanda: a new banking trojan from Asia hit Europe and LATAM Threat Campaign Spreads Winos4.0

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 3, 2018

Experts uncovered a massive cryptojacking campaign that is targeting MikroTik routers to inject a Coinhive cryptocurrency mining script in the web traffic. According to Trustwave the hackers were exploiting a zero-day flaw in the MikroTik routers to inject a copy of the Coinhive library in the traffic passing through the MikroTik router.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 25, 2019

A backdoor mechanism found in tens of Ruby libraries. Employees abused systems at Ukrainian nuclear power plant to mine cryptocurrency. Malware Analysis Sandboxes could expose sensitive data of your organization. 5 Ways to Protect Yourself from IP Address Hacking. Backdoored Webmin versions were available for download for over a year.

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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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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 9, 2020

The massive cryptojacking campaign was targeting MikroTik routers, the hackers aimed at changing the configuration of the devices to inject a Coinhive cryptocurrency mining script in the users’ web traffic. An operation coordinated by Interpol, dubbed Goldfish Alpha, dismantled an illegal cryptocurrency network operating in Southeast Asia.

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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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