cryptocurrency miner
NoaBot Pwns Hundreds of SSH Servers as Crypto Miners
Richi Jennings | | Bitcoin miner, botnet, botnets, coin miner, coin miners, coinminer, crypto miner, Crypto miners, cryptocurrency miner, cryptominer, cryptominers, imaginary money, IoT botnet, IoT botnets, iot cryptocurrency miner, iot cryptominer, Linux.Mirai, Mirai, Mirai botnet, Mirai Malware, NoaBot, SB Blogwatch
‘hi’ — Mirai-based botnet exploits weak authentication to mine fake money ...
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Hold My Beer Mirai – Spinoff Named ‘LiquorBot’ Incorporates Cryptomining
Liviu Arsene | | cryptocurrency miner, cryptomier, iot, iot cryptocurrency miner, iot cryptominer, IoT Research, LiquorBot, Mirai
The Mirai botnet that made headlines in 2016 for taking out infrastructure through large-scale network attacks has become a reference point in the security industry for the damage that large IoT botnets ...
Worm-Cryptominer Combo Lets You Game While Using NSA Exploits to Move Laterally
Liviu Arsene | | Anti-Malware Research, Beapy, bitdefender research, cryptocurrency miner, cryptomier, PCASTLE, Whitepapers, worm
Bitdefender researchers recently found and analyzed a worm-cryptominer combo that uses a series of exploits to move laterally and compromise victims. What makes it interest is that it pauses the resource-intensive cryptomining ...
Mining cryptocurrency at work lands Australian civil servant in court
A 33-year-old man from Sydney, New South Wales, could be sentenced to up to 10 years in jail after allegedly hijacking computers at his workplace to mine cryptocurrency for him. He’s probably ...
Google Play Store no longer accepts crypto-mining apps
Filip Truta | | App Store, Crypto, crypto miner, cryptocurrency, cryptocurrency miner, Cryptojacking, google, Google Play, Google Play Store, Industry News
Taking a leaf from Apple’s rulebook regarding cryptocurrency mining, Google has updated its Play Store guidelines to keep shady financial instruments out of its Android applications venue. Over on the Google Play ...
Fileless Threat CactusTorch Abuses .NET to Infect Systems
Lucian Constantin | | bootkit, CactusTorch, cryptocurrency miner, fileless malware, Hidden Mellifera
Over the past several months, security researchers have observed increased activity from a malware threat called CactusTorch that uses fileless techniques and reputable Windows executables to avoid detection. The malware program loads ...
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