Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Security experts from Kaspersky have published an interesting report on the new trends in the IoT threat landscape. What is infecting IoT devices and how? The researchers set up a honeypot to collect data on infected IoT devices, the way threat actors infect IoT devices and what families of malware are involved.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 22, 2023

Social networks are constantly battling inauthentic bot accounts that send direct messages to users promoting scam cryptocurrency investment platforms. The messages said recipients had earned an investment credit at a cryptocurrency trading platform called moonxtrade[.]com. “On Twitter, more spam and crypto scam.”

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

In December 2021, Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) discovered the intense activities being conducted by Glupteba Botnet on the internet and filed a lawsuit in a district court of New York. Google won the lawsuit against two Russian nationals who were found guilty in operating the said botnet network.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 18, 2022

The variant they focused on uses a range of known exploits for vulnerabilities in web apps and databases to install cryptocurrency miners on both Windows and Linux systems. Once it has gained a foothold and the bot malware is running on a compromised system it deploys a Monero cryptocurrency miner. The favorite cryptocurrency.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 22, 2023

Furthermore, the anonymity of cryptocurrency transactions, once regarded as a refuge for criminals, has significantly diminished. According to information obtained by our Cybersecurity Insiders, it appears that the next target for these criminals will be the Internet of Things (IoT).

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Malwarebytes

MAY 9, 2022

Over 50 countries sign the “Declaration for the Future of the Internet” Watch out for these 3 small business cybersecurity mistakes. The post A week in security (May 2 – 8) appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Taiwanese vendor QNAP warns customers of ongoing attacks targeting their NAS devices with cryptocurrency miners. Taiwanese vendor QNAP warns customers of threat actors targeting their NAS devices with cryptocurrency miners. Do not expose your NAS to the internet, or avoid using default system port numbers 443 and 8080.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 4, 2018

If we examine Gartner’s Top Predictions for 2018 and beyond, IoT and cryptocurrencies rise to the top. IoT in Everything. By 2020, IoT technology will be in 95% of electronics for new product designs. It is still early days but IoT connected everything will radically change our world and the way we live.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 17, 2022

The linked article focuses on misconfiguration, phishing issues, limiting data share, and the ever-present Internet of Things. Cryptocurrency wallet attacks. People new to cryptocurrency often gravitate to services which take the hassle out of setting everything up. Below, we dig into a few of those.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Researchers from from Netlab, the network security division of Chinese tech giant Qihoo 360, have discovered a new botnet, tracked as HEH, that contains the code to wipe all data from infected systems, such as routers, IoT devices, and servers.

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Security Affairs

JULY 24, 2018

It listens on port 5555, and enables anybody to connect over the internet to a device. Since it appears to be killing Monero mining processes, the compromised devices could be retasked to mine cryptocurrency for a different group. It is also clear some people are insecurely rooting their devices, too.” Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

fitness chains Town Sports leaked online Group-IB detects a series of ransomware attacks by OldGremlin HOW DO PROVIDERS IMPLEMENT INTERNET BLOCKING IN BELARUS? fitness chains Town Sports leaked online Group-IB detects a series of ransomware attacks by OldGremlin HOW DO PROVIDERS IMPLEMENT INTERNET BLOCKING IN BELARUS?

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

As Industrial systems connect with the internet to leverage cloud analytics, the devices have become more vulnerable to cyberattacks. Industrial control systems (ICS) and the internet of things (IoT) are specifically vulnerable to cyber threats because of improper OT security systems and vulnerabilities within the product.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 5, 2022

In December 2021, Google filed a civil lawsuit against two Russian men thought to be responsible for operating Glupteba , one of the Internet’s largest and oldest botnets. Glupteba also rents out infected systems as “proxies,” directing third-party traffic through the infected devices to disguise the origin of the traffic.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

In 2023, we might see a slight decline in ransomware attacks, reflecting the slowdown of the cryptocurrency markets. And IT teams should be prepared to deal with evolving threats posed by emerging technologies which are becoming widespread, such as geo-targeted phishing or attacks related to Cloud Security, IOT and AI.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 26, 2022

Between last year’s high-profile incidents involving ransomware, supply chain attacks, and the exploitation of critical systems vulnerabilities and the new focus on cryptocurrency theft, it’s likely that interest in cybersecurity topics will continue to climb in 2022 and beyond.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

The vast majority (84%) of enterprises are now using, or planning to use, digitally transformative technologies – such as big data, containers, blockchain and the Internet of Things (IoT). So how do these technologies stack up from a security standpoint?

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Thousands of unpatched MikroTik Routers are involved in new cryptocurrency mining campaigns. Thousands of unpatched devices are mining for cryptocurrency at the moment. “This gives room for other tasks to run and mine for cryptocurrency at the same time, in the hope of keeping the activity hidden from the user.”

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The Security Ledger

JULY 4, 2018

Quantum principles are set to transform the next generation of Internet security, with new quantum-based technologies on tap to improve encryption and data communication which researchers believe could solve some of the limitations with current technology. Read the whole entry. » Read the whole entry. »

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SC Magazine

MAY 17, 2021

.” The duo homed in on a list of emerging technologies that could create new wrinkles in the security landscape: automation, machine learning and AI including advances in NLP and GAN, immersive digital environments, data in the digital supply chain, cyber/physical crossover, additive manufacturing and the prevalence of 5G and widescale IoT.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Ransomware is more favored by hackers nowadays because they can get paid in cryptocurrencies that are hard to trace. OT/IT and IoT convergence. Digital connectivity driven by the adoption of industrial internet of things and operational technology (OT) has further expanded the attack surface. 2022 will be more of the same.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 6, 2022

“A near-future event could cause a massive depopulation of internet-connected devices. “CISOs and security teams will need to have an understanding of all of the facets of cryptocurrencies, including different blockchains like Ethereum and Solana, smart contracts, and hot and cold storage,” says Carey.

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NopSec

APRIL 23, 2018

This year, NopSec did just that with our 2018 Top Cybersecurity Threats White paper , and we predict that the biggest cyber threats will be massive data breaches, ransomware, opportunistic crypto-mining attacks and IoT hacking. Cryptocurrency Hacks — Cryptojacking Cryptocurrency has been a game changer for the criminal world.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 3, 2018

Experts uncovered a massive cryptojacking campaign that is targeting MikroTik routers to inject a Coinhive cryptocurrency mining script in the web traffic. The campaign can potentially compromise over a million of MikroTik routers exposed on the Internet. — MalwareHunterBR (@MalwareHunterBR) July 30, 2018.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

A student at a high school in Cook County successfully hacked into the Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices of one of the largest school districts in Illinois, and gave everyone a surprise. The hack started small, in seventh grade, when the students bypassed their middle school’s internet filters to watch YouTube during lunch.

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Herjavec Group

OCTOBER 27, 2020

70 percent of cryptocurrency transactions will be for illegal activity by 2021. There will be 6 billion Internet users by 2022 (75 percent of the projected world population of 8 billion) — and more than 7.5 billion Internet users by 2030 (90 percent of the projected world population of 8.5 billion, 6 years of age and older).

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Besides encrypting and decrypting data, there are many applications of private keys , including web server security, digital signatures and document signing, digital identities, and cryptocurrencies. Cryptocurrencies. To generate, store, and trade digital currency, cryptocurrencies rely on cryptographic algorithms.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Attorney Bryan Schroder announced today that three defendants have been sentenced for their roles in creating and operating two botnets, which targeted “Internet of Things” (IoT) devices. “U.S. ” continues the press release. ” ~ Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

JULY 12, 2022

Researchers investigated cloud-based cryptocurrency mining attacks targeting GitHub Actions and Azure VMs. Researchers from Trend Micro published a report that details cloud-based cryptocurrency mining attacks targeting GitHub Actions and Azure VMs and the threat actors behind them. ” states the report published by Trend Micro.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

The campaign uses multiple shell/batch scripts, new open source tools, a cryptocurrency miner, the TeamTNT IRC bot, and more. Windows component – Set up a cryptocurrency miner. Keep minimal exposure to the Internet on Linux servers and IoT devices and use a properly configured firewall. See figure 6.). Appendix C.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

In February 2018, researchers from Proofpoint discovered a huge botnet dubbed ‘Smominru’ that was using the EternalBlue exploit to infect Windows computers and recruit them in Monero cryptocurrency mining activities.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

Group-IB and CryptoIns introduce the worlds first insurance against cyber threats for cryptocurrency exchanges. Shellbot Botnet Targets IoT devices and Linux servers. IBM Watson will be used by NIST to assign CVSS scores to vulnerabilities. A flaw in WooCommerce WordPress Plugin could be exploited to take over e-stores.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 28, 2018

Threat actors are leveraging the flaw in the attempt to install the CNRig cryptocurrency miner. Volexity has observed at least one threat actor attempting to exploit CVE-2018-11776 en masse in order to install the CNRig cryptocurrency miner.” ” states the report published by Volexity. and 167.114.171.27,” . “The

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Sustes Malware doesn’t infect victims by itself, but it is spread via brute-force activities with special focus on IoT and Linux servers. Everybody knows Monero cryptocurrency and probably everybody knows that it has built upon privacy, by meaning It’s not that simple to figure out Monero wallet balance. XMRIG prove 1.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

a very strange scam attempt. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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SecureList

MAY 31, 2021

For now, we can tentatively assume that the growth in cryptocurrency prices, in particular bitcoin, has attracted the attention of cybercriminals and returned miners to their toolkit. IoT attacks. IoT threat statistics. On average, 7.67% of Internet user computers worldwide experienced at least one Malware-class attack.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2020

To perform the experiment, we used Internet of Things (IoT) search engines to search for open devices that utilized common printer ports and protocols. After filtering out most of the false positives, we were left with more than 800,000 printers that had network printing features enabled and were accessible over the internet.

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