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A botnet consisting of some 2,000 compromised servers has been mining cryptocurrency for its master for several months now, “earning” him around $1,000 per day. GuardiCore researchers first spotted it in December 2016, and have been mapping it out and following its evolution since then. The’ve dubbed it Bondnet, after the handle its herder uses online (“Bond007.01”). Compromised Windows servers serve different functions Bondnet’s main reason of being is the mining of cryptocurrencies: primarily Monero, … More → Continue reading Bondnet botnet goes after vulnerable Windows servers
Mining cryptocurrencies can be a costly investment, but creative cybercriminals have found a money-making solution. Researchers say a newly discovered botnet consisting of 15,000 machines is stealing computing power to mine increasingly valuable cryptocurrencies like Monero to enrich a hacker named “Bond007.01.” The entire “BondNet botnet” operation is netting around $25,000 per month, according to researchers at the Israeli security firm GuardiCore Labs. The victims include high-profile global companies, universities, city councils and other public institutions. They’re not losing money, just resources: Hackers have long known that when you don’t have to pay for the electricity powering the processors, cryptocurrency mining is pure profit. As bitcoin and its variants continue to rise to unprecedented value, the reward for such a scheme will increasingly outweigh the risk. The price of Monero, a privacy-focused cryptocurrency that hides transactions, has risen 2,109 percent in the last year. The last month alone has seen a 44 percent rise in […]
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Ofri leads the Detection Development group at GuardiCore, which is responsible for security research, detection, and development of data analysis algorithms. Ofri educates us on the Oracle of Delphi, the PhotoMiner worm, Infection Monkey, and more here on Paul’s Security Weekly! Full Show Notes Take the Security Weekly Survey Subscribe to YouTube Channel Security Weekly Continue reading Paul’s Security Weekly #492 – Ofri Ziv, GuardiCore