Category Archives: cryptocurrency miner

Cryptominers Snuck Logic Bomb Into Python Packages

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Malware can show up where you least expect it. Researchers discovered a logic bomb attack in the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository, which is code repository for Python developers and part of the software supply chain. Attackers aimed to get honest software developers to include the bombs in their applications by accident.  The researchers found […]

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A Fly on ShellBot’s Wall: The Risk of Publicly Available Cryptocurrency Miners

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IBM Security X-Force researchers studied the botnet activity of a malware variant that is used by cyber crime groups to illegally mine cryptocurrency. Examining two ShellBot botnets that appeared in attacks honeypots caught, the X-Force team was able to infect its own devices and become part of the live botnets, thereby gaining insight into how […]

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Securing Your Cloud Transformation Journey

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Cloud computing introduced a paradigm shift in how companies operated, maintained and spent on IT. Through its varied service models (IaaS, PaaS and SaaS), it offers companies the ability to spin up their infrastructure in minutes, auto scale on demand, pay only as per use and offset significant IT costs spent on running and maintaining […]

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Under Attack: How Threat Actors are Exploiting SOCKS Proxies

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From the basic building blocks of the internet to cryptocurrency mining on a supercomputer, SOCKS sits at the core of computing. A SOCKS proxy can be used to improve network security in an enterprise, but can also be exploited by cybercriminals for nefarious reasons. Take a look at how SOCKS proxies have been manipulated recently […]

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

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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 can inflict. Since its source code was published … Continue reading Hold My Beer Mirai – Spinoff Named ‘LiquorBot’ Incorporates Cryptomining→

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

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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 can inflict. Since its source code was published … Continue reading Hold My Beer Mirai – Spinoff Named ‘LiquorBot’ Incorporates Cryptomining→

A Year (and Decade) in Review: Key Takeaways From 2019 Cybersecurity Trends

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As the year comes to a close, it’s worth looking back at 2019 cybersecurity trends, tactics and takeaways and the 2010s as a whole to help define the next decade of cyberdefense.

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

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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 process if it finds popul… Continue reading Worm-Cryptominer Combo Lets You Game While Using NSA Exploits to Move Laterally→

Mining cryptocurrency at work lands Australian civil servant in court

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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 not the first person in the world to be tempted into t… Continue reading Mining cryptocurrency at work lands Australian civil servant in court→

Credential Dumping Campaign Hits Multinational Corporations

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X-Force researchers observed attackers targeting multinational corporations in various sectors using malicious scripts to automate attacks on misconfigured servers.

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