Collaborate Disseminate
How do you know if bad actors are siphoning off your power and racking up huge bills for your organization? These silent malware scripts could be infecting your public cloud infrastructure right now, but would you even know it? Crytpo Basics The… Continue reading Have Crypto-Miners Infiltrated Your Public Cloud?
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An estimated 2 million cyberattacks took place in 2018 costing more than $45 billion in damages worldwide. The worse part is that while cyberattacks are surging authorities are struggling to tackle the growing threat, said study released on Tu… Continue reading Cyber attacks cost $45 billion in 2018 with Ransomware at top
A new modular backdoor detected as “Plurox” comes with multiple plugins that expand its capabilities to include cryptomining and worm-like behavior. In February 2019, Kaspersky Lab’s researchers first detected the backdoor. Their anal… Continue reading Modular Plurox Backdoor Comes with Cryptomining, Worm-Like Plugins
Attackers are exploiting a Linux Exim critical flaw to execute remote commands, download crypto miners and sniff out other vulnerable servers. Continue reading Millions of Linux Servers Under Worm Attack Via Exim Flaw
Since March, criminals have been using hacking tools that were reportedly stolen from the National Security Agency in targeting companies around the world as part of a cryptomining campaign, researchers with cybersecurity company Trend Micro said Thursday. The broad-brush campaign has hit organizations in the banking, manufacturing and education sectors, among others, Trend Micro says. The criminals are essentially hijacking corporate computing power to harvest the cryptocurrency Monero. It’s hardly a new concept, but in this case it’s a reminder that tools deployed by state-sponsored hackers can also be used by relatively unskilled crooks more interested in making money than in spying. “Entry-level cybercriminals are gaining easy access to what we can consider ‘military-grade’ tools — and are using them for seemingly ordinary cybercrime activity,” Trend Micro researchers wrote in a blog post. The attacks are exploiting old versions of Microsoft Windows using a variant of a backdoor based on the EternalBlue exploit, Trend Micro said. EternalBlue is code reportedly […]
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A Monero cryptominer made a home on an Apache Tomcat server and just wouldn’t stay away. Continue reading The cryptominer that kept coming back
A rapidly-expanding campaign has infected 50,000 servers with malware that mines an open source cryptocurrency called TurtleCoin. Continue reading 50k Servers Infected with Cryptomining Malware in Nansh0u Campaign
Mozilla has released a host of fixes for its browser as it rolls out its latest 67 version of Firefox, which touts better speed and privacy. Continue reading Mozilla Tackles Two Critical Flaws with Firefox 67 Release
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.
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You have backups in the event your business is hit by ransomware. You have prepared PR statements should there be any kind of customer data breach. You have been careful to keep all software updated, and you train your employees on cyber hygiene at lea… Continue reading Cyberthreats Your Business Isn’t Prepared For