Remove Libraries Remove Mining Remove Presentation
article thumbnail

New Pro-Ocean crypto-miner targets Apache ActiveMQ, Oracle WebLogic, and Redis installs

Security Affairs

. “LD_PRELOAD forces binaries to load specific libraries before others, allowing the preloaded libraries to override any function from any library. One of the ways to use LD_PRELOAD is to add the crafted library to /etc/ld.so.preload.” ” continues the analysis. Pro-Ocean deploys an XMRig miner 5.11.1

Cloud 129
article thumbnail

30 Docker images downloaded 20M times in cryptojacking attacks

Security Affairs

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.

Mining 108
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Q&A: Here’s why Android users must remain vigilant about malicious apps, more so than ever

The Last Watchdog

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.

Libraries 176
article thumbnail

Threat actors continue to exploit Log4j flaws in their attacks, Microsoft Warns

Security Affairs

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. ” Microsoft concludes.

Libraries 136
article thumbnail

SECURITY AFFAIRS MALWARE NEWSLETTER – ROUND 22

Security Affairs

Through Zyxel! Unveiling the Past and Present of APT-K-47 Weapon: Asyncshell Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter )

article thumbnail

AI and the Digital Humanities at CILIP Conference 2024

CILIP

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.

article thumbnail

I Now Own the Coinhive Domain. Here's How I'm Fighting Cryptojacking and Doing Good Things with Content Security Policies.

Troy Hunt

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. file from coinhive.com and the setting of a 32-byte key. Windows+NT+10.0;+Win64;+x64)+AppleWebKit/537.36+(KHTML,+like+Gecko)+apollohobo/1.0.0+Chrome/58.0.3029.110+Electron/1.7.9+Safari/537.36

Security 145