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. It’s likely IT and security teams won’t find the infection for months.

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Data Breach Today

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Security of Code Pushed by Content Delivery Networks Remains Ongoing Concern More than 4,200 websites, some belonging to the U.S., and Australian governments, have been turning their visitors' computers into mining machines to harvest the virtual currency Monero.

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Data Breach Today

JANUARY 16, 2019

Trend Micro Says It Moved Cranes Using RF Software Flaws Radio controllers used in the construction, mining and shipping industries are dangerously vulnerable to hackers, Trend Micro says in a new report.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

According to Group-IB’s report findings, Asia is one of the most actively attacked regions in the world, the company presented latest cybercrime trends. Cyber trends and threats that we identified in the world are likely to occur in Asia. Increasingly often, state-sponsored hackers are focusing on vulnerabilities in home routers.

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Security Affairs

JULY 24, 2018

In an ideal world, all of the security controls are applied and all of the debugging tools are removed or disabled before the code is released to the public. ” These are very powerful functions for debugging tools, and also useful for executing malicious code without being trapped by the usual security controls.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 18, 2020

Security researchers have discovered a new crypto-minining botnet, dubbed TeamTNT, that is able to steal AWS credentials from infected servers. Security firm Cado Security reported that the TeamTNT botnet is the first one that is able to scan and steal AWS credentials. ” reads the report published by Cado Security.

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Security Affairs

MAY 3, 2024

Trend Micro researchers reported that the EdgeRouter botnet , called Moobot , used by the APT28 group is still active and is also used by cyber criminal organizations. Trend Micro also discovered that at least two prominent cybercriminal groups and the Russia-linked APT group Pawn Storm used the botnet. ” reported Trend Micro.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2021

Researchers from Trend Micro have spotted a new Linux botnet employing multiple emerging techniques among cyber-criminals, including the use of Tor proxies, the abuse of legitimate DevOps tools, and the removal or deactivation of competing malware. ” reads the analysis published by Trend Micro. for spreading. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Security researchers discovered a new botnet, named Abcbot , that focused on Chinese cloud hosting providers over the past months. In November, researchers from Qihoo 360’s Netlab security team spotted the Abcbot botnet that was targeting Linux systems to launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Trend Micro researchers have spotted crypto-mining campaigns that are actively exploiting a recently disclosed critical remote code execution vulnerability in Atlassian Confluence deployments across Windows and Linux. ” states Trend Micro. ” states Trend Micro. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 1, 2019

A new cryptojacking campaign was spotted by experts at Trend Micro, crooks are using Shodan to scan for Docker hosts with exposed APIs. ” reads the analysis published by Trend Micro. “The script then calls a Monero coin-mining binary, darwin (detected as PUA.Linux.XMRMiner.AA), to run in the background.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 28, 2018

Cybercriminals continue to abuse unprotected Docker APIs to create new containers used for cryptojacking, Trend Micro warns. Earlier this year Sysdig and Aqua Security researchers started observing cyber attacks targeting Kubernets and Docker instances aimed at mining Monero cryptocurrency. Docker Trusted Registry ).

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Software giant Atlassian released emergency security updates to address a critical zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-22515 (CVSS score 10), in its Confluence Data Center and Server software. Atlassian fixed a critical zero-day flaw in its Confluence Data Center and Server software, which has been exploited in the wild.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Researchers spotted a cryptocurrency mining campaign targeting Linux users with Go-based CHAOS malware (Trojan.Linux.CHAOSRAT). In November 2022, Trend Micro researchers discovered a cryptocurrency mining campaign targeting Linux users with Go-based CHAOS malware (Trojan.Linux.CHAOSRAT). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 10, 2022

Experts linked the C2 infrastructure behind an the Abcbot botnet to a cryptocurrency-mining botnet attack that was uncovered in December 2020. Experts linked the infrastructure used by the Abcbot DDoS botnet to the operations of a cryptocurrency-mining botnet that was uncovered in December 2020. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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. ” reads the analysis published by Trend Micro. ” concludes Trend Micro. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – coin miner, mal ware).

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 28, 2021

Early this year, researchers from Trend Micro discovered that the TeamTNT botnet was improved with the ability to steal Docker credentials. The TeamTNT botnet is a crypto-mining malware operation that has been active since April 2020 and that targets Docker installs. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, malware).

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 16, 2023

From July to September, researchers from Trend Micro observed a malicious campaign DarkGate campaign abusing instant messaging platforms to deliver a VBA loader script to victims. ” continues Trend Micro. Moreover, the sample that abused Teams came from an unknown, external sender.” ” concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

The TeamTNT botnet is a crypto-mining malware operation that has been active since April 2020 and that targets Docker installs. Experts pointed out that even if the group is expanding its arsenal adding new capabilities, it still focuses on cryptocurrency mining. ” reads the analysis published by AT&T. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 22, 2019

Trend Micro recently discovered an Android crypto-currency mining botnet that can spread via open ADB (Android Debug Bridge) ports and Secure Shell (SSH). “We observed a new cryptocurrency-mining botnet malware that arrives via open ADB (Android Debug Bridge) ports and can spread via SSH. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 21, 2018

2018 was the year of the Internet of Things (IoT), massive attacks and various botnets hit smart devices, These are 5 IoT Security Predictions for 2019. 2019 will continue these trends but at a faster pace. 2019 will continue these trends but at a faster pace. Insights from VDOO’s leadership. Insights from VDOO’s leadership.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 20, 2024

Trend Micro researchers are exploiting the recently disclosed vulnerabilities CVE-2024-27198 (CVSS score: 9.8) security flaws in JetBrains TeamCity to deploy multiple malware families and gain administrative control over impacted systems. ” reads the report published by Trend Micro. and CVE-2024-27199 (CVSS score 7.3)

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Early this year, researchers from Trend Micro discovered that the TeamTNT botnet was improved with the ability to steal Docker credentials. The TeamTNT botnet is a crypto-mining malware operation that has been active since April 2020 and that targets Docker installs. aws/credentials and ~/.aws/config aws/credentials and ~/.aws/config

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

Researchers from Trend Micro spotted a new cryptocurrency miner that leverages a rootkit component to hide its presence on the infected systems. “We recently encountered a cryptocurrency-mining malware (detected by Trend Micro as Coinminer.Linux.KORKERDS.AB) affecting Linux systems,” reads the report published by TrendMicro. .

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Security Affairs

JULY 11, 2024

Multiple threat actors exploit a recently disclosed security PHP flaw CVE-2024-4577 to deliver multiple malware families. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added the the vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. ” reported Akamai. ” reported Akamai. In June, the U.S.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Trend Micro researchers reported that TeamTNT hackers are targeting poorly configured Docker servers exposing Docker REST APIs as part of an ongoing campaign that started in October. ” reads the analysis published by Trend Micro. . ” reads the analysis published by Trend Micro. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 3, 2022

The issue was reported by security firm Volexity, the company announced the availability of the security fixes for supported versions of Confluence within 24 hours (estimated time, by EOD June 3 PDT). Security Affairs is one of the finalists for the best European Cybersecurity Blogger Awards 2022 – VOTE FOR YOUR WINNERS.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 22, 2022

The Lemon_Duck cryptomining botnet is targeting Docker servers to mine cryptocurrency on Linux systems. Crowdstrikes researchers reported that the Lemon_Duck cryptomining botnet is targeting Docker to mine cryptocurrency on Linux systems. “The “a.asp” file is the actual payload in this attack. ” concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 15, 2019

” reads the analysis published by Trend Micro. launching DDoS attacker, mining cryptocurrency, etc.). In the campaign observed by Trend Micro, the bot was deployed using the docker exec command to misconfigured containers. “Once an open port is identified, a connection asking for running containers is established.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 5, 2019

Security experts at Trend Micro have discovered a new Monero cryptomining miner, dubbed BlackSquid, that is targeting web servers, network drives, and removable drives. ” states Trend Micro. “Simultaneous with its attacks, BlackSquid also downloads and executes two XMRig cryptocurrency-mining components.!

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 28, 2020

Security researchers from Sophos have spotted a new variant of the Lemon_Duck cryptomining malware that has been updated to compromise Linux machines via SSH brute force attacks. The Lemon_Duck cryptomining malware was first spotted in June 2019 by researchers from Trend Micro while targeting enterprise networks.

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Security Affairs

MAY 17, 2022

Trend Micro researchers spotted over 200 Android apps on the Play Store distributing spyware called Facestealer used to steal sensitive data from infected devices. Trend Micro researchers also discovered 40 fake cryptocurrency miner apps that are variants of similar apps that they discovered in August 2021. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Trend Micro researchers spotted a piece of Linux cryptocurrency miner, dubbed Skidmap that leverages kernel-mode rootkits to evade the detection. Skidmap is a new piece of crypto-miner detected by Trend Micro that target Linux machines, it uses kernel-mode rootkits to evade the detection. ” Trend Micro concludes.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Cybereason Nocturnus security researchers have identified an active campaign focused on the users of a large e-commerce platform in Latin America. bin, researchers also observed the use of a cryptocurrency mining module. . The malware also installs three other files, hhc.exe, hha.dll and chaes1.bin, ” concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 15, 2019

Researchers from Trend Micro have analyzed the communication protocols used by cranes and other industrial machines and discovered several flaws. Security experts from Trend Micro have discovered several vulnerabilities in the communication protocols used by cranes, hoists, drills and other industrial machines.

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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. “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

APRIL 26, 2019

Security experts uncovered a new cryptojacking campaign tracked as Beapy that leverages the NSA’s DoublePulsar backdoor and the EternalBlue exploit. ” Experts observed a spike in the activity of Beapy in March: Since Coinhive cryptocurrency mining service shut down in March, experts observed a drop in cryptojacking attacks.

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