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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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Norton 360 Cryptominer, Fake QR Codes on Parking Meters, Facebook Account Deactivation
Tom Eston | | Account Deactivation, cryptocurrency, cryptominer, cryptomining, Cybersecurity, Deactivation, Digital Privacy, Episodes, facebook, Information Security, Infosec, Norton 360, Parking Meters, Phishing, Podcast, Privacy, QR Codes, security, technology, Texas, Weekly Edition
Norton 360, a popular antivirus product, has installed a cryptocurrency mining program on its customers’ computers, some cities in Texas have been hit with a phishing scam designed to get users to ...
THREAT ALERT: Malicious Code Implant in the UAParser.js Library
Cybereason Global SOC Team | | cryptominer, cyberattack, Cybereason Defense Platform, Cybersecurity, EDR, Endpoint Controls, endpoint detection and response, Endpoint Protection Platform, EPP, Exploits, Infosec, Malop, Malware, managed detection and response, managed security services provider, mdr, security, Security Operations Center, SOC, Threat Alerts, Threat Intelligence, UAParser.js Library, Unified Endpoint Security, Vulnerabilities, vulnerability
The Cybereason Global Security Operations Center (SOC) issues Cybereason Threat Alerts to inform customers of emerging impacting threats. The Alerts summarize these threats and provide practical recommendations for protecting against them ...
Monero Cryptominer Attack Exploits Exchange Server Flaw
It didn’t take threat actors long to jump on a vulnerability affecting Microsoft Exchange mail server software. While exploits involving an array of malware from ransomware to webshells are well-documented, Sophos researchers ...
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Kingminer Botnet Keeps up with the Times
Janos Gergo SZELES | | Anti-Malware Research, botnet, cryptominer, Kingminer, Threat Intelligence, Whitepapers
The e-currency boom in late 2017 sparked a new type of “gold rush”, as cyber-criminals started racing to infect home computers and data centers with crypto-miners. While digital currencies have fluctuated wildly ...
11-Plus Supercomputers Hacked With Cryptominers
High-performance computers across Europe have been shut down to clear out malware infestations. There’s also evidence of attacks in the US ...
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Guardicore Labs: Vollgar Botnet Targets SQL Server DBs
Michael Vizard | | Artificial Intelligence, botnet, cryptominer, Data Security, Malware, Microsoft, remote access tools, SQL Server
Guardicore Labs this week published a report detailing how a malicious botnet has been using a brute force technique for nearly two years now to compromise systems running Microsoft SQL Server databases, ...
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New “Norman” Malware Took Part in Large-Scale Cryptominer Infection
David Bisson | | cryptominer, IT Security and Data Protection, Latest Security News, Malware, Norman
Researchers identified a large-scale cryptocurrency miner infection in which a new malware family called “Norman” took part. The Varonis Security Research team made the discovery while investigating a cryptominer infection at a ...
Thousands of Magento Sites Infected with Card Skimming Code
Lucian Constantin | | botnet, card skimming, cryptominer, Magento, Malware, online shop, script injection
Over the past six months, a group of hackers has managed to break into more than 7,000 Magento-based online shops and infected them with malicious code that steals payment card information from ...
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Researchers Uncover Massive Malvertising Operation
While analyzing recent drive-by download attacks, security researchers have uncovered a large malvertising operation that infiltrated the legitimate online ad ecosystem and abuses more than 10,000 compromised websites. Malicious advertising, or malvertising, ...
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