Collaborate Disseminate
During an incident response investigation, we detected an interesting piece of heavily obfuscated JavaScript malware. Once decoded, we found out that cryptominers were running on visitor’s computers when they accessed our customer’s w… Continue reading Obfuscated JavaScript Cryptominer
The first half of 2018 saw an uptick in fileless malware attacks and a downturn in ransomware attacks, for now. Continue reading ThreatList: Ransomware Attacks Down, Fileless Malware Up in 2018
As we have previously discussed on this blog, surreptitious cryptomining continues to be a problem as new methods emerge to both evade and hasten the ease of mining at the expense of system administrators, website owners, and their visitors.
Another W… Continue reading An Old Trick with a New Twist: Cryptomining Through Disguised URL Shorteners
By Waqas
Vulnerability in Drupal CMS Converted Popular Websites into Monero mining
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Andy Ellis, CSO Akamai, discusses how the company works with others within the cybersecurity landscape to help keep the internet safe. Continue reading Akamai CSO Talks Cryptominers, IoT and the Reemergence of Old Threats
By Waqas
At least 1,000 Magento based websites including shops have been
This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Magento sites hacked with cryptominers & credential stealing malware
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When threat actors take to free and disposable cloud services, the battle against malicious cryptomining becomes a lot more difficult.
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Cryptomining
Threat analysis
Tags: adblockersblacklistcoinhivecryptominerscryptominingGitHub
(… Continue reading Malicious cryptomining and the blacklist conundrum
We take a look at a prolific campaign that is focused on the distribution of coin miners via drive-by download attacks. We started to notice larger-than-usual payloads from the RIG exploit kit around November 2017, a trend that has continued more … Continue reading RIG exploit kit campaign gets deep into crypto craze
Recently we wrote about how GitHub/GitHub.io was used in attacks that injected cryptocurrency miners into compromised websites. Around the same time, we noticed another attack that also used GitHub for serving malicious code.
Encrypted CoinHive Miner … Continue reading Malicious Website Cryptominers from GitHub. Part 2.
In less than a decade, cryptocurrency became almost mainstream. Many people are familiar with Bitcoin, which was the first decentralized digital currency. In fact, there are more than 10 different cryptocurrencies with a market cap exceeding 1 billion US dollars. Some are very similar, but others significantly differ in the mathematical and computational properties of […]… Read More
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