The Last Watchdog

JUNE 20, 2018

Cryptojacking, as defined by the Federal Trade Commission , is the use of JavaScript code to capture cryptocurrencies in users’ browsers without asking permission. Bilogorskiy: Before 2013 a lot of malware was focused on spam, DDoS and monetizing through malicious advertising and ad fraud. Bilogorskiy: Exactly. It was insane.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 3, 2020

The Department of Justice has charged the two Chinese nationals for laundering cryptocurrency for North Korea-linked APT groups. for helping North Korea-linked hackers in laundering cryptocurrency. The cryptocurrency have been stolen by the APT groups from two cryptocurrency exchanges. and Li Jiadong (???),

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 26, 2020

Singapore-based cryptocurrency exchange KuCoin disclosed a security breach, hackers stole $150 million from its hot wallets. Singapore-based cryptocurrency exchange KuCoin disclosed a major security incident, the hackers breached its hot wallets and stole all the funds, around $150 million. It seems #Kucoin got hacked.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2020

Experts uncovered a hacking campaign that is breaching Docker clusters to deploy a new crypto-mining malware tracked as Kinsing. ” The Kinsing malware abuses the resources of the Docker installations to mine cryptocurrency, hackers exploit unprotected open Docker API port to instantiate an Ubuntu container.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

Researchers from Trend Micro spotted a new cryptocurrency miner that leverages a rootkit component to hide its presence on the infected systems. Cryptocurrency malware continues to be a privileged choice for crooks and the number of victims is rapidly growing. Security Affairs – Linux cryptocurrency miner, hacking).

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Palo Alto Network researchers discovered a new malware, tracked as XBash, that combines features from ransomware, cryptocurrency miners, botnets, and worms. Security researchers at Palo Alto Networks have discovered a new piece of malware, dubbed XBash piece that is targeting both Linux and Microsoft Windows servers.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 5, 2019

A new piece of malware appeared in the threat landscape, dubbed BlackSquid it targets web servers with several exploits to deliver cryptocurrency miners. The new piece of malware leverages many exploits to compromise target systems and implements evasion techniques to avoid detection. ” states Trend Micro.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2020

Microsoft warned of a recently uncovered piece of malware, tracked as Anubis that was designed to steal information from infected systems. This week, Microsoft warned of a recently uncovered piece of malware, tracked as Anubis, that was distributed in the wild to steal information from infected systems. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 19, 2020

According to the Guardicore Labs researchers, the malware already infected over 500 servers in the U.S. The malware keeps track of the available blobs by storing them in a map together with each blob’s hash value.” The commands themselves are transmitted to the malware through a series of hoops designed to avoid detection.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 24, 2020

The CryptoCore hacker group that is believed to be operating out of Eastern Europe has stolen around $200 million from online cryptocurrency exchanges. Experts from ClearSky states that a hacker group tracked as CryptoCore, which is believed to be operating out of Eastern Europe, has stolen around $200 million from cryptocurrency exchanges.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

A threat actor is launching brute-force attacks on MSSQL servers in the attempt to access them to install a new crypto-mining malware dubbed MrbMiner. A group of hackers is launching brute-force attacks on MSSQL servers with the intent to compromise them and install crypto-mining malware dubbed MrbMiner. Mining process.”

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Security Affairs

MAY 13, 2020

The United States Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM) has uploaded five new North Korean malware samples to VirusTotal. The United States Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM) has shared five new malware samples attributed to the North Korea-linked Lazarus APT , it has uploaded the malicious code to VirusTotal. ” reads the DHS CISA’s advisory.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 7, 2022

The DOJ said it did not seek to disinfect compromised devices; instead, it obtained court orders to remove the Cyclops Blink malware from its “command and control” servers — the hidden machines that allowed the attackers to orchestrate the activities of the botnet. energy facilities. ” HYDRA. . ” HYDRA. .

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Security Affairs

MARCH 12, 2020

Cybercriminals continue to exploit the fear in the coronavirus outbreak to spread malware and steal sensitive data from victims. Experts from cybersecurity Reason reported cybercrimnals are using new coronavirus -themed attacks to deliver malware. To make sure the malware can persist and keep operating, it uses the “Task Scheduler”.”

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Raccoon Malware is a recently discovered infostealer that can extract sensitive data from about 60 applications on a targeted system. Racoon malware , Legion, Mohazo, and Racealer, is an infostealer that recently appeared in the threat landscape that is advertised in hacking forums. ” reads the report published by CyberArk.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 18, 2020

Multiple members of QQAAZZ multinational cybercriminal gang were charged for providing money-laundering services to high-profile malware operations. According to law enforcement bodies, the gang provides services to multiple malware operations, including Dridex , GozNym , and Trickbot. ” . ” states the DoJ.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 20, 2019

Researchers discovered that recently patched Firefox zero-day (CVE-2019-11707) has been exploited to deliver Windows and Mac malware to cryptocurrency exchanges. According to Martin, other cryptocurrency organizations were hit by similar attacks. CVE-2019-11707 is a type confusion vulnerability in Array.pop.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 13, 2019

Security experts at 360 Total Security have discovered a new modular cryptocurrency malware that implements worm capabilities to spread. The Monero cryptocurrency miner uses a worm module (Systemctl.exe) dubbed PsMiner written in the Go language which includes exploit modules used to hack into vulnerable servers.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 9, 2020

In the last 18 months, North Korea-linked Lazarus APT group has continued to target cryptocurrency exchanges evolving its TTPs. Kaspersky researchers have analyzed the attacks carried out by North Korea-linked Lazarus APT group in the past 18 months and confirmed their interest in banks and cryptocurrency exchanges.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 10, 2019

Security experts from Trend Micro have discovered a new strain of coin miner that targets the Linux platform and installs the XMR-Stak Cryptonight cryptocurrency miner. “It installs a cryptocurrency-mining malware as well as implant itself into the system and crontabs to survive reboots and deletions.”

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Security Affairs

JULY 16, 2020

Researchers spotted a new Android banking trojan dubbed BlackRock malware that steals credentials and credit card data from hundreds of apps. The BlackRock malware borrows the code from the Xerxes banking malware, which is a strain of the popular LokiBot Android trojan. Coinbase, BitPay, and Coinbase), and banks (i.e.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Researchers spotted a new Office malware builder, tracked as APOMacroSploit, that was employed in a campaign targeting more than 80 customers worldwide. Researchers from security firm Check Point uncovered a new Office malware builder called APOMacroSploit, which was employed in attacks that targeted more than 80 customers worldwide.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 8, 2019

Avast spotted a new strain of Clipsa malware that is used to mine and steal cryptocurrencies along with carrying out brute-force attacks on WordPress sites. Clipsa is a malware that is well known to cyber security community is able to steal cryptocurrency via clipoard hijacking and mine cryptocurrency after installing a miner. .

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Security experts at F-Secure have recently spotted a small spam campaign aimed at Mac users that use Exodus cryptocurrency wallet. The malware poses itself as a fake Exodus update, it is using the subject “Update 1.64.1 Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. update.zip.”

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Security Affairs

MARCH 28, 2019

Security experts at Group-IB have detected the activity of Gustuff a mobile Android Trojan, which includes potential targets of customers in leading international banks, users of cryptocurrency services, popular ecommerce websites and marketplaces. Gustuff has previously never been reported.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Experts warn of the KryptoCibule Windows malware that has been active since late 2018 and has targeted users in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Security researchers from ESET have shared technical detailts of a new piece of Windows malware tracked as KryptoCibule. ” reads the report. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Microsoft revealed that the new Dexphot cryptocurrency miner has already infected more than 80,000 computers worldwide. Security experts at Microsoft analyzed a new strain of cryptocurrency miner tracked as Dexphot that has been active since at least October 2018. The malware also uses scheduled tasks to achieve persistence.

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Security Affairs

JULY 29, 2020

Experts spotted an undetectable Linux malware that exploits undocumented techniques to evade detection and targets publicly accessible Docker servers. ” The botnet is scanning the Internet for misconfigured Docker API endpoints, Experts noticed that the Ngrok malware has already infected many vulnerable servers.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 5, 2019

Researchers at AT&T Alien Labs have spotted a malware called Xwo that is actively scanning the Internet for exposed web services and default passwords. Experts at AT&T Alien Labs discovered a new piece of malware called Xwo that is actively scanning the Internet for exposed web services and default passwords. Www backup paths.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 8, 2024

warn of PRC-linked cyber espionage targeting telecom networks U.S. Hackers stole millions of dollars from Uganda Central Bank International Press Newsletter Cybercrime INTERPOL financial crime operation makes record 5,500 arrests, seizures worth over USD 400 million Hackers Stole $1.49

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Security Affairs

APRIL 12, 2019

Hackers are using the EternalBlue exploit and leveraging advantage of Living off the Land ( LotL ) obfuscated PowerShell-based scripts to deliver malware and a Monero cryptocurrency. “The malware also uses the pass the hash method, wherein it authenticates itself to remote servers using the user’s hashed password.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

Experts at Juniper Threat Labs have discovered a new piece of malware dubbed Masad Stealer that exfiltrate s cryptocurrency wallet files via Telegram. Security researchers at the Juniper Threat Labs discovered a strain of malware dubbed Masad Stealer that is actively distributed.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

You just knew 2022 was going to be The Year of Crypto Grift when two of the world’s most popular antivirus makers — Norton and Avira — kicked things off by installing cryptocurrency mining programs on customer computers.

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Security Affairs

MAY 8, 2019

Threat actors are exploiting a Jenkins vulnerability (CVE-2018-1000861) disclosed in 2018 to deliver a cryptocurrency miner using the Kerberods dropper. In the absence of root permissions, the malware created a cron job to ensure persistence. The malware also search for other vulnerable Jenkins servers on the internet.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

According to the UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA), this individual also was behind the infamous Reveton ransomware Trojan spread in 2012 — 2014. Kaspersky solutions worldwide detected this type of malware on 297,485 unique user devices. This malware also possessed the capability to install a backdoor on compromised systems.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

Hackers have infected with a piece of malware some IoT devices running Windows 7 designed by three of the world’s largest manufacturers. Security experts from TrapX reported that some IoT devices running Windows 7 have been infected with a piece of malware, is it a supply chain attack? ” reads the report p ublished by TrapX.”First,

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Security Affairs

JULY 28, 2018

Google has updated the Play Store Developer Policy page to ban mobile mining apps that mine cryptocurrencies using the computational resources of the devices. Due to the surge in cryptocurrency prices, many legitimate websites and mobile apps are increasingly using cryptocurrency miners. Pierluigi Paganini.

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