Hold My Beer Mirai – Spinoff Named ‘LiquorBot’ Incorporates Cryptomining

Hold My Beer Mirai – Spinoff Named ‘LiquorBot’ Incorporates Cryptomining

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

Worm-Cryptominer Combo Lets You Game While Using NSA Exploits to Move Laterally

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 ...