Security Affairs

AUGUST 30, 2024

Threat actors are actively exploiting a critical flaw in the Atlassian Confluence Data Center and Confluence Server in cryptocurrency mining campaigns. A second threat actor used a shell script to execute cryptocurrency mining activities across all accessible endpoints in the customer environment using Secure Shell (SSH).

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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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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 25, 2021

The malware is not present in Virus Total at this time, it is written in.net and its code is not signed. 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

JANUARY 23, 2021

Sophos researchers that investigated the recently uncovered crypto-mining campaign targeting SQL servers with MrbMiner malware believe that it was conducted by an Iran-based company. Experts noticed that the same username used for the GitHub account was present on the machine used to compile the miner.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 14, 2018

Earlier August, experts uncovered a massive crypto jacking campaign that was targeting MikroTik routers to inject a Coinhive cryptocurrency mining script in the web traffic. In September thousands of unpatched MikroTik Routers were involved in new cryptocurrency mining campaigns.

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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

APRIL 24, 2024

The issue in the update mechanism was present for at least five years. Puppeteer orchestrates the core functionality of the malware, including the cryptocurrency mining as well as the backdoor deployment. Avast already reported the issue to eScan and the India CERT. eScan acknowledged the flaw and addressed it on July 31, 2023.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

. “ Illicit access to compromised or backdoored sites and databases is used by criminals for a number of activities, ranging from spam campaigns, to fraud, or cryptocurrency mining.” ” continues the report. “These compromises have also been used to gain access to corporate networks.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 29, 2021

There, denizens with computer rigs that are built primarily for mining virtual currencies can set to work using those systems to crack passwords. But a decent crypto-mining rig can quickly crack a majority of password hashes generated with MD5 (one of the weaker and more commonly-used password hashing algorithms).

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Experts pointed out that the bot doesn’t contain any offensive features, such as the ability to launch DDoS attacks or to mine cryptocurrency, a circumstance that suggests the malware is under development. The Attack function in the code is just a reserved empty function, and has not been implemented.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 31, 2021

to mine Monero, unlike 2019 variant, it uses a Python infection script to implement “wormable” capabilities. X.X). “Cryptojacking malware targeting the cloud is evolving as attackers understand the potential of that environment to mine for crypto coins. ” continues the analysis. Pro-Ocean deploys an XMRig miner 5.11.1

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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, researchers observed it killing other Linux malware and coin miners present on the infected machine. ” reads the analysis published by Trend Micro.

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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.

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OpenText Information Management

APRIL 12, 2023

According to Gartner, a digital transformation includes information technology modernization, adoption of cloud computing, … The post Past, present and future in a digital transformation journey appeared first on OpenText Blogs. The objective is often tied to cost leadership, increased competitiveness or simply moving into a niche.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 5, 2022

“ customers should assume broad availability of exploit code and scanning capabilities to be a real and present danger to their environments. The IT giant also confirmed that Webtoos DDoS malware was also deployed via the Log4Shell vulnerability. . ” Microsoft concludes.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Hi folks, today I’d like to point you out another tool of mine which extracts suspicious IPs from undesired connections. Following a set of interesting and very selective graphic views are presented. In other words: HoneyPots. The feed is update every 24h, so it would be useless to make multiple downloads per day.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 28, 2021

However, if an attacker possesses 51% or more of the computational power of the entire network, they can force nodes to accept their alternate chain, because it’s built with more mining power than the “legitimate” chain currently on the network. Attackers can use this method of rewriting history to reverse transactions.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 3, 2019

Duo Labs presents CRXcavator Service that analyzes Chrome Extensions. CoinHive Cryptocurrency Mining Service will shut down on March 8, 2019. Once again thank you! 70000 Pakistani banks cards with PINs go on sale on the dark web. CVE-2019-9019 affects British Airways Entertainment System on Boeing 777-36N(ER).

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Xmrig is an open sourced Monero CPU Miner used to mine Monero cryptocurrency. Kinsing is a self-propagating crypto mining malware previously targeting misconfigured open Docker Daemon API ports. Coinminers. Figure 1: Shell script downloading and executing Xmrig. Figure 2: Kinsing getting downloaded via shell script.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

APT41’s activities span from the mid-2000s to the present day. ” The government alleges the group monetized its illicit access by deploying ransomware and “ cryptojacking ” tools (using compromised systems to mine cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin).

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 8, 2024

I recently attended an IoActive-sponsored event in Seattle at which Pegueros gave a presentation titled: “Merging Cybersecurity, the Board & Executive Team” Pegueros shed light on the land mines that enshroud cybersecurity presentations made at the board level. Here’s that exchange, edited for clarity and length.

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Security Affairs

MAY 19, 2019

Pacha Group declares war to rival crypto mining hacking groups. Past, present, and future of the Dark Web. Facebook sues data analytics firm Rankwave over alleged data misuse. Over 10k+ GPS trackers could be abused to spy on individuals in the UK. Reading the Yoroi Cyber Security Annual Report 2018. Malware Training Sets: FollowUP.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

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

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Krebs on Security

MAY 26, 2023

. “The five ccTLDs to which Freenom provides its services are the TLDs of choice for cybercriminals because Freenom provides free domain name registration services and shields its customers’ identity, even after being presented with evidence that the domain names are being used for illegal purposes,” Meta’s complaint charged.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 15, 2024

Ltd (BoB-Cardif Life) partnered with IBM® Using IBM Client Engineering methods and introducing AI-powered process mining product IBM Process Mining. ” IBM Process Mining can use data from enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM), and other business systems.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2022

The phishing messages sent to the journalists contained a link to ZIP archives containing LNK files, both named ‘Kang Min-chol edits’ (Kang Min-chol is North Korea’s Minister of Mining Industries). “Based on the presented analysis, the GOLDBACKDOOR malware shares strong technical overlaps with the BLUELIGHT malware.

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Security Affairs

MAY 6, 2022

On executing the above shell script (hash: 05a65e666492dd8ec5ab0985e5395967bc7bed03e9aaca11cdb9351873093382), the Xmrig miner gets downloaded from github and mining gets started (see Figure 8). The main objective of kinsing is to mine cryptocurrency on the vulnerable servers. Figure 9: xmrig getting downloaded.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Typical unstructured data includes a long list of files—emails, Word docs, social media, text files, job applications, text messages, digital photos, audio and visual files, spreadsheets, presentations, digital surveillance, traffic and weather data, and more. But with no orderly internal framework, unstructured data defies data mining tools.

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Dark Reading

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Mining malware ebbs and flows with the price of cryptocurrencies, and given the momentum on price is upward, cryptojacking is a very present threat.

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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. Back to the present, more than 20,000 of the compromised MikroTik routers were found in the ASEAN region.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The code is presented as a necessary step to resolve the supposed issue, but instead, it opens the door for malware installation. Matanbuchus and XMRig: Used for cryptocurrency mining, these malware strains can slow down systems while surreptitiously utilizing computing resources.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 27, 2021

The LemonDuck malware that for the past couple of years has been known for its cryptocurrency mining and botnet capabilities is evolving into a much broader threat, moving into new areas of cyber attacks, targeting both Linux and Microsoft systems and expanding its geographical reach, according to security researchers with Microsoft.

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IG Guru

JULY 28, 2020

NAGARA’s 2020 Summer Online Forum: Mining Our Past, Engineering Our Future is on Friday, July 31, 2020! Today, we want to highlight for you the fifth of five Forum session presentations. Remember, this event has been pre-approved for 5.0 CEUs by ARMA International 5.0 CMPs from ICRM, and 5.0 for NAGARA members […].

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 9, 2023

Normally at this point, Experian’s website would present four or five multiple-guess questions, such as “Which of the following addresses have you lived at?” For example, there were four phone numbers on my Experian credit file: Only one of them was mine, and that one hasn’t been mine for ages.

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Security Affairs

MAY 17, 2020

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IBM Big Data Hub

AUGUST 28, 2023

One of the best ways to take advantage of social media data is to implement text-mining programs that streamline the process. What is text mining? When used strategically, text-mining tools can transform raw data into real business intelligence , giving companies a competitive edge. How does text mining work?

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

” Russia’s Roskomnadzor revealed that the proceedings protocol was signed in the presence of a representative of Twitter, while no Facebook representative was present to sign it. Administrative Code of the Russian Federation, which provides for an administrative fine in the amount of 1 million to 6 million rubles.”

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