Collaborate Disseminate
The adversaries have retooled with EternalBlue and credential theft to add a new “access mining” revenue stream. Continue reading Smominru Cryptominer Scrapes Credentials for Half-Million Machines
Over the past year, a group of hackers has used the “EternalBlue” exploit to infect more than 500,000 computers from around the world and use them to mine Monero. According to researchers from security firm Proofpoint, who have been trackin… Continue reading Hackers Use EternalBlue Exploit to Infect 500K Computers with Cryptominer
Researchers say Smominru threat actors are in control of 500,000 node botnet and earning $8,500 daily mining for Monero cryptocurrency. Continue reading Massive Smominru Cryptocurrency Botnet Rakes In Millions
Why go to all the bother of writing ransomware that demands victims pay a Bitcoin ransom? If all you want is cryptocurrency, why not use the infected computers to mine the crypto coins themselves?
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A global botnet dubbed “Smominru” has been secretly mining Monero on infected machines and making millions of dollars for its owners, according to research from Proofpoint. The operators have mined about 8,900 Monero valued at up to $3.6 million at a rate of 24 Monero ($8,500) per week. Researchers have watched the Smominru botnet spread since May 2017. Now including over 526,000 infected Windows hosts, Smominru uses EternalBlue, a Windows exploit developed by the NSA and leaked by the hacking group Shadow Brokers. The Smominru botnet’s command and control infrastructure is hosted behind SharkTech, a hosting and DDoS protection service, that reportedly ignored repeated abuse notification. SharkTech did not respond to a request for comment. “This Monero mining botnet is extremely large, made up mostly of Microsoft Windows servers spread around the globe,” Kevin Epstein, a vice president of threat operations at Proofpoint, said in a release. “Taking down the botnet is very difficult […]
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