Collaborate Disseminate
Sophos released new findings on the Tor2Mine cryptominer, that show how the miner evades detection, spreads automatically through a target network and is increasingly harder to remove from an infected system. Tor2Mine is a Monero-miner that has been ac… Continue reading Tor2Mine cryptominer has evolved: Just patching and cleaning the system won’t help
By Deeba Ahmed
LemonDuck was first discovered in China in 2019 as a cryptocurrency botnet that used affected systems for Monero mining.
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In a series of ransomware payment negotiations last December, operatives from a gang known as “Egregor” alternated from treating their victims with surprising civility, and behaving like cartoonish movie villains. “The Egregor Team wishes you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year,” they’d say at intervals of their chat room communications, sometimes in the middle of an extortion back-and-forth. “We wish you wisdom in your decision making and financial stability in this difficult time for us all. Happy Holidays!” In another exchange, they weren’t as kind, threatening to leak victims’ data and publish it on a website as a warning to other organizations that might fall in the group’s crosshairs. “We simply need to determine what category you should be placed in. In the category of those who are ready to negotiate and pay or in the category of scarecrows on our news site,” one exchange read. “It’s not […]
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By Waqas
Dubbed Crackonosh by researchers; the malware uses the victim’s computer resources to mine cryptocurrencies for its developers.
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By Waqas
Unpatched MS Exchange Servers are being hunted by Prometei botnet to expand its army of Monero cryptocurrency mining bots.
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The recent Microsoft Exchange Server vulnerabilities might have initially been exploited by a government-backed APT group, but cybercriminals soon followed suit, using them to deliver ransomware and grow their botnet. One perpetrator of the latter acti… Continue reading Monero-mining botnet targets orgs through recent MS Exchange vulnerabilities
Sometimes a glaring new software vulnerability is all that scammers need to revive a trusty hacking scheme. Just days after Microsoft announced that suspected Chinese spies were exploiting bugs in Microsoft Exchange Server software in March, Russian-speaking attackers controlling a botnet, or army of compromised computers, used those vulnerabilities to conduct a series of intrusions at companies in North America, according to incident responders at security firm Cybereason. The hacks, which are among several breaches involving the Exchange Server vulnerabilities, show how the same bugs in widely used software can be used for very different purposes. And the reemergence of the so-called Prometei botnet, named after the Russian word for Prometheus, the Greek god of fire, is a reminder of the many malicious purposes that the zombie computers serve. Cybereason said it was aware of more than a dozen recent hacking incidents involving the Prometei botnet, which the attackers typically use […]
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It didn’t take threat actors long to jump on a vulnerability affecting Microsoft Exchange mail server software. While exploits involving an array of malware from ransomware to webshells are well-documented, Sophos researchers report that other payload… Continue reading Monero Cryptominer Attack Exploits Exchange Server Flaw
I published the following diary on isc.sans.edu: “Pastebin.com Used As a Simple C2 Channel“: With the growing threat of ransomware attacks, they are other malicious activities that have less attention today but they remain active. Think about crypto-miners. Yes, attackers continue to mine Monero on compromised systems. I spotted an interesting
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By Waqas
According to researchers, both developer resources were also targeted last year for Monero mining but now the campaign has resurfaced.
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