Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

A threat actor is launching brute-force attacks on MSSQL servers in the attempt to access them to install a new crypto-mining malware dubbed MrbMiner. A group of hackers is launching brute-force attacks on MSSQL servers with the intent to compromise them and install crypto-mining malware dubbed MrbMiner. Mining process.”

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 20, 2018

On the face, the damage caused by cryptojacking may appear to be mostly limited to consumers and website publishers who are getting their computing resources diverted to mining fresh units of Monero, Ethereum and Bytecoin on behalf of leeching attackers. You can mine them, if you have a powerful CPU. Bilogorskiy.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 29, 2021

Every time there is another data breach, we are asked to change our password at the breached entity. Our continued reliance on passwords for authentication has contributed to one toxic data spill or hack after another.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 3, 2018

Illicit crypto mining is advancing apace. It began when threat actors began stealthily embedding crypto mining functionality into the web browsers of unwitting individuals. Related article: Illicit crypto mining hits cloud services. Arsene: It’s important to understand that crypto mining may seem benign.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Login information for 37 administrators, including full names, username, password and email: [link]. 11 Usernames, Passwords & Emails for Database eSG: [link]. 110 Usernames, Passwords & Emails for Database exe: [link]. 40 Usernames, Passwords & Emails for Database exe2: [link]. 38 Databases Total: [link].

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Security Affairs

APRIL 1, 2020

Cybersecurity researchers spotted a crypto-mining botnet, tracked as Vollgar, that has been hijacking MSSQL servers since at least 2018. Researchers at Guardicore Labs discovered a crypto-mining botnet , tracked as Vollgar botnet , that is targeting MSSQL databases since 2018. ” conclude the experts.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 25, 2021

“These techniques include numerous modules that exploit implicit trust, weak passwords, and unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities in popular applications, including Secure Shell (SSH), IT administration tools, a variety of cloud-based applications, and databases.” ” reads the post published by Zscaler.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 21, 2021

QNAP is warning customers of a new piece of malware dubbed Dovecat that is targeting NAS devices to mine cryptocurrency. The malware was designed to abuse NAS resources and mine cryptocurrency. The malware targets QNAP NAS devices exposed online that use weak passwords. Use stronger admin passwords. Install a firewall.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 8, 2019

Avast spotted a new strain of Clipsa malware that is used to mine and steal cryptocurrencies along with carrying out brute-force attacks on WordPress sites. Clipsa is a malware that is well known to cyber security community is able to steal cryptocurrency via clipoard hijacking and mine cryptocurrency after installing a miner. .

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 13, 2020

“We believe PGMiner is the first cryptocurrency mining botnet that is delivered via PostgreSQL.” The PGminer botnet targets Postgress that have default user “ postgres ”, and performs a brute-force attack iterating over a built-in list of popular passwords such as “ 112233 “ and “ 1q2w3e4r “ to bypass authentication.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 25, 2021

The resource contains information for the mining activity, the researchers identified a self-compiled version of the XMrig open-source miner containing information such as username, password, algorithm, and mining pool.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 22, 2021

The Windows botnet has been active since late 2017, it was mainly used to mine cryptocurrency, but it was also involved in DDoS attacks in 2018. “Recently, a new infection vector that cracks Windows machines through SMB password brute force is on the rise” reads the analysis published by AVAST.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 20, 2019

The backdoor was used by attackers to inject mining code in Ruby projects using the malicious versions of the libraries. Every time the method gets called it will send the email/password to the attacker.” One of the most popular Ruby libraries, the rest-client, was found containing the malicious code yesterday. .

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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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Krebs on Security

MARCH 15, 2021

com , a wildly popular service that sold access to more than 12 billion usernames and passwords stolen from thousands of hacked websites. For several years, WeLeakInfo was the largest of several services selling access to hacked passwords. A little over a year ago, the FBI and law enforcement partners overseas seized WeLeakInfo[.]com

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Security Affairs

MAY 14, 2023

ssh/authorized_keys, anyone with the corresponding private key can authenticate the SSH server without supplying a password. Initially, they deployed and executed a separate Monero miner alongside the usual RapperBot binary, but starting from January 2023, they included the mining capabilities in the bot. ” continues the report.

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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. Cloud security firm Aqua Security uncovered a hacking campaign carried out during the past months, hackers are scanning the Internet for Docker servers running API ports exposed without a password.

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Data Breach Today

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

New and Repurposed Attack Code Steals Passwords, Drops Miners and Ransomware Cybercrime gangs continue to update or issue fresh versions of malware to mine for cryptocurrency, deliver crypto-locking ransomware, steal passwords and facilitate online bank account heists, according to new research reports.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 29, 2020

ESET researchers also said the attackers also attempt to exploit RDP connections to try to install coin-mining malware or create a backdoor. ” Unfortunately, most organizations often neglect the protection of RDP accesses and workers use easy-to-guess passwords and with no additional layers of authentication or protection.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 23, 2024

Victims of this variant of Qilin ransomware attack must reset all Active Directory passwords and warn users to change passwords for the sites saved in their Chrome browsers. Finally, attackers used another GPO to schedule the execution of the ransomware, leaving ransom notes in every directory on the infected machines.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 25, 2023

Researchers from Cyble Research and Intelligence Labs (CRIL) discovered a trojanized Super Mario Bros game installer for Windows that was used to deliver multiple malware, including an XMR miner, SupremeBot mining client, and the Open-source Umbral stealer. stream” to carry out cryptocurrency mining activities.” moneroocean[.]stream”

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

In November 2022, the password manager service LastPass disclosed a breach in which hackers stole password vaults containing both encrypted and plaintext data for more than 25 million users. 15, 2022, LastPass said an investigation into the August breach determined the attacker did not access any customer data or password vaults.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 26, 2024

Several Apple customers recently reported being targeted in elaborate phishing attacks that involve what appears to be a bug in Apple’s password reset feature. “It was like this system notification from Apple to approve [a reset of the account password], but I couldn’t do anything else with my phone.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Group-IB cybersecurity researchers recently identified several Russian-speaking cybercrime groups offering infostealing malware-as-a-service (MaaS), resulting in the theft of more than 50 million passwords thus far. Don’t save passwords in browser. Read next: Best Password Management Software & Tools.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

In the first half of 2018, researchers at Kaspersky Lab said that the most popular attack vector against IoT devices remains cracking Telnet passwords (75,40%), followed by cracking SSH passwords (11,59%). Top 10 countries from which Kaspersky traps were hit by Telnet password attacks is led by Brazil, China, and Japan.

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Security Affairs

JULY 5, 2019

. “The malware campaign propagates using 7 different methods: 4 web application exploits (2 targeting ThinkPHP, 1 targeting Drupal, and 1 targeting Confluence), SSH credentials enumeration, Redis database passwords enumeration, and also trying to connect other machines using found SSH keys.”

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Security Affairs

JUNE 26, 2024

Researchers warn that the P2Pinfect worm is targeting Redis servers with ransomware and cryptocurrency mining payloads. Cado Security researchers warned that the P2Pinfect worm is employed in attacks against Redis servers, aimed at deploying both ransomware and cryptocurrency mining payloads. ” reads the report published by Cado.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 13, 2019

and also the system weak password to spread, using the vulnerability intrusion set with ElasticSearch, Hadoop, Redis, Spring, Weblogic, ThinkPHP and SqlServer server machines, after the invasion using the victim machine to dig the Monroe currency.” ” reads the analysis published by the experts.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 8, 2021

Upon executing the code, it will ask the user the path for the payload to be encrypted and the password to be used for AES encryption to hide the malware within the loader. In case, the password is not provided, the tool generates one. Experts noticed that the group also used the Ezuri loader that is similar to the original one. .

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Security Affairs

JULY 16, 2022

Critical flaw in Netwrix Auditor application allows arbitrary code execution CISA urges to fix multiple critical flaws in Juniper Networks products Threat actors exploit a flaw in Digium Phone Software to target VoIP servers Tainted password-cracking software for industrial systems used to spread P2P Sality bot Experts warn of attacks on sites using (..)

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Security Affairs

JUNE 4, 2021

“The usernames and passwords are now in a separate two arrays and extended to include many other usernames and passwords. The main payloads allow the malware to launch DDoS attacks, sniff and exfiltre network traffic using a SOCKS proxy and install XMRig Monero cryptocurrency mining software. ” continues the post.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 28, 2020

. “This aspect of the campaign expands the mining operation to support computers running Linux. When it finds them, it launches an SSH brute force attack on these machines, with the username root and a hardcoded list of passwords.” ” reads the post published by Sophos.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The Windows botnet has been active since late 2017, it was mainly used to mine cryptocurrency, but it was also involved in DDoS attacks in 2018. The malware uses exploits for known vulnerabilities and password brute-forcing attacks for self-propagation.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 24, 2022

It can be a real hassle to keep track of the passwords you use. So many people use the same combination of username and password for every account. You see, these days, many data breaches could be traced back to people using the same password across multiple accounts. And finding that password is even easier.

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Security Affairs

JULY 13, 2019

“ Malware then guesses routers’ passwords , which new research from Avast shows are often weak. ” Avast researchers also observed crooks using DNS hijacking to deliver crypto mining scripts to users’ browsers. ” reads a blog post published by Avast. Most recently, Netflix became a popular domain for DNS hijackers.”

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Upon compromising the devices, the miner will create a new process named [oom_reaper] that allows threat actors to mine Bitcoin. Use stronger passwords for your administrator and other user accounts. The Taiwanese vendor was informed of ongoing eCh0raix ransomware attacks that infected QNAP NAS devices using weak passwords.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 31, 2019

In June, Trend Micro discovered an Android crypto-currency mining botnet that can spread via open ADB (Android Debug Bridge) ports and Secure Shell (SSH). . Ares bot also scans for both other Android systems running Telnet services and attempt to crack passwords protecting them. ” continues the analysis.

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