Collaborate Disseminate
By Waqas
Nitrokod crypto miner mines Monero (XMR) coin on infected devices and so far it has targeted 111,000 unsuspecting users in 11 countries.
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The volatile crypto market has fueled a GPU shortage, but that may not be good for long term investors in companies like Nvidia. Continue reading SEC Fines Nvidia $5.5 Million for Not Telling Investors Crypto Mining Drove Sales
By Deeba Ahmed
LemonDuck cryptomining botnet previously targeted Microsoft Exchange servers. Now it is targeting the world’s leading containerization platform, Docker.…
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By Deeba Ahmed
According to researchers, the new CoinStomp malware is mainly targeting cloud service providers based in Asia. The IT…
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Many readers were surprised to learn recently that the popular Norton 360 antivirus suite now ships with a program which lets customers make money mining virtual currency. But Norton 360 isn’t alone in this dubious endeavor: Avira antivirus — which has built a base of 500 million users worldwide largely by making the product free — was recently bought by the same company that owns Norton 360 and is introducing its customers to a service called Avira Crypto. Continue reading 500M Avira Antivirus Users Introduced to Cryptomining
Police in Tarragona, Spain, have arrested a man and a woman after they allegedly infected computers at high-street stores with malware with the intention of mining cryptocurrency on them.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog. Continue reading Couple arrested for secretly installing cryptomining software on department store PCs
Cloud security is the best sort of altruism: you need to do it to protect yourself, but you help to protect everyone else at the same time. Continue reading Cloud Security: Don’t wait until your next bill to find out about an attack!
By Deeba Ahmed
The warning comes days after three rogue packages, okhsa, klow, and klown discovered by DevSecOps firm Sonatype, were removed from the NPM repository.
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For forensics purposes, I am looking to find suspicious scripts or patterns that could give me clues to find crypto-mining malware on a Linux server.
I have a copy of suspicious data but it is not possible to run the virtual machine in the… Continue reading How to detect crypto mining malware [closed]
By Deeba Ahmed
Ukrainian authorities have seized the illegal cryptomining farm and recovered 3,800 PlayStation 4 gaming consoles and GPUs.
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