Security Affairs

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The botnet was involved in stealing users’ credentials and data, mining cryptocurrencies abusing victims’ resources, and setting up proxies to funnel other people’s internet traffic through infected machines and routers. TAG also partnered with CloudFlare and others take down servers. users were warned via Safe Browsing.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 21, 2024

million cryptojacking scheme arrested in Ukraine Cybercrime Cryptojacker arrested in Ukraine over EUR 1.8

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 30, 2021

Today’s websites integrate dozens of third-party service providers, from user analytics to marketing tags, CDNs , ads, media and these third-party services load their code and content into the browser directly. Due to optimized speeds and improved computing capacity on client devices, the architecture has evolved over the last few years.

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Webroot

JANUARY 25, 2021

Skyrocketing Bitcoin prices prompt resurgence in mining malware. The data was leaked in an October data breach, which Nitro confirmed, and was bundled for auction with a high price tag. As the price of the cryptocurrency Bitcoin pushes record highs, there’s been a corresponding resurgence in cryptomining malware.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

For example, the Mozi_ssh is a crypto mining trojan that spreads worm-like through SSH weak password and it uses the same wallet address of nd Mozi_ftp use the same wallet. “The discovery of Mozi_ftp, Mozi_ssh gives us clear evidence that the Mozi botnet is also trying to profit from mining. ” continues the post.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 16, 2021

While we’re still in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, travelling is another big passion of mine that I plan to resume as soon as it is safe to do so. . What are your hobbies or passions outside of Delphix? I like sports, especially handball and biking. 5 songs that make your personal soundtrack: La vuelta al mundo - Calle 13.

Digital transformation 59

Digital transformation Technology Big data Healthcare 59

Troy Hunt

MARCH 15, 2020

But the NDC events really need to run over 2 whole days, so we came up with a better idea: Scott and I will be tag-teaming the 2-day events. I'll leave you with an interview of NDC's General Manager where he was quizzed about a blog post of mine from a few years ago on 10 ways for a conference to upset their speakers.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 23, 2019

This one is mine. “With this in mind I tried inserting a script tag instead of an iframe into an email. The expert was sending some JavaScript code to his friends via email when he accidentally discovered the XSS issue that could allow an attacker to embed an iframe into the email. ” explained the expert.

Advertising 66

Advertising Authentication Hacking Malware 66

SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

One of the most exciting things Jamie learned about Gutenberg is the use of / shorthand to autofill tags. This was another favorite of mine. Zac Gordon – Setup & Introduction to Gutenberg: Tooling And Terminology. Josh Pollock – Building Custom Gutenberg Blocks: From Static to Dynamic. Elementary, My Dear Coder.

Malware 98

Malware Education Security Awareness Engineering 98

Troy Hunt

MARCH 1, 2018

There's a verification process where control of the domain needs to be demonstrated (email to a WHOIS address, DNS entry or a file or meta tag on the site), after which all aliases on the domain and the breaches they've appeared in is returned. At the time of writing, over 110k domain searches have been performed and verified.

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Government Data breaches Passwords Authentication 188

Security Boulevard

APRIL 26, 2022

net which was attributed to Lazarus APT in Google TAG blog. org was hosted on this IP address in Jan 2021 which was attributed to Lazarus APT as per this tweet from ESET and Google TAG blog. Daehan Mine Development Co., If we check the passive DNS data for this domain, we find two other IP address resolutions: 172.93.201[.]253

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

In fact, from January through the end of October, Kaspersky detected more than 2,300 fraudulent global resources aimed at 85,000 potential crypto investors or users who are interested in cryptocurrency mining. Botnet operators use infected devices to carry out DDoS attacks or mine cryptocurrency.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Nor am I going to wade into the debate about the ecological consequences of mining cryptocurrencies. Vranken: Well, mining means cracking a puzzle, which has a certain amount of time and that takes like 10 seconds or something. So there are companies which only mine cryptocurrencies and they make money by this.

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Cryptocurrency InfoSec Software Encryption 52

Troy Hunt

AUGUST 7, 2018

It later eventuated that the compromise was due to a single line of code or more specifically, a script tag on Ticketek's website that embedded a chatbot from a company called Inbenta. It's a little alarming that it took the bank to figure out that one of their merchants had been pwned rather than identifying it themselves, yet here we are.

Banking 125

Banking 125

SecureList

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

It is openly available on underground hacker forums for just a few hundred dollars, a relatively small price tag for malware. The second is a miner, which makes sense, since the main target audience, judging by the video, is gamers — who are likely to have video cards installed that can be used for mining.

Passwords 96

Passwords Hacking Malware Software 96

Troy Hunt

JUNE 30, 2022

Every time this very blog loads Font Awesome from Cloudflare's CDN, for example, it's verified against the hash in the integrity attribute of the script tag (view source for yourself). My own email address begins with a "t", so it must be mine! It's a nonsense argument.

Passwords 308

Passwords Identity Theft Consumer Services Password Management 308

Troy Hunt

JUNE 15, 2023

Here's mine: One of the problems the dashboard approach helps tackle is unsubscribing on an individual domain basis. We can't add a meta tag. In the past, the only way to unsubscribe from domain notifications was to wait until one landed in your inbox then unsubscribe from every single monitored domain in one go.

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ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

The same with social media apps, I have to go through various settings to make sure that I'm not tagged without my permission, or in some cases even block a person now and again. Things like tagging, others, they seem like a great idea at the time but later, maybe not so. It's important that people think this isn't mine.

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Technology Software Surveillance Media 52

ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

That would be a problematic thing but maybe there's somebody in my neighborhood or a friend of mine that also likes to save money, and we can both research, you know, the art of compounding together. Anyone want to tag along? Let's say that I say I was interested in finance. You will grow.

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Hacking InfoSec Internet Internet 40

ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

That would be a problematic thing but maybe there's somebody in my neighborhood or a friend of mine that also likes to save money, and we can both research, you know, the art of compounding together. Anyone want to tag along? Let's say that I say I was interested in finance. You will grow.

Hacking 40

Hacking InfoSec Internet Internet 40

ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

That would be a problematic thing but maybe there's somebody in my neighborhood or a friend of mine that also likes to save money, and we can both research, you know, the art of compounding together. Anyone want to tag along? Let's say that I say I was interested in finance. You will grow.

Hacking 40

Hacking InfoSec Internet Internet 40

ForAllSecure

MAY 13, 2022

There's a little security tag they put to see if someone is tampered with it but they are not locked. It's mine. The next episode of the hacker mine is all about hacking is not a crime. You click that thing with some wire cutters. You just pull it right off and you have a smart meter. And I was like, Look, I bought it on eBay.

Engineering 52

Engineering Energy and Utilities Computers and Electronics Firmware 52

Troy Hunt

JUNE 10, 2019

Search for your account across multiple breaches [link] — Have I Been Pwned (@haveibeenpwned) December 4, 2013 I’ll save the history lesson for the years between then and today because there are presently 106 blog posts with the HIBP tag you can go and read if you’re interested, let me just talk briefly about where the service is at today.

Data breaches 279

Data breaches Passwords InfoSec Accountability 279

Troy Hunt

MARCH 3, 2021

Because I myself have a Gab account which I created when started making commentary on them and Parler in Jan, naturally the first thing I did was to pull out my own record: Looking into the (alleged) @getongab data breach, many records don't have an email address or a password hash (mine has the former, but not the latter). Coincidence?

Passwords 363

Passwords Data breaches InfoSec Risk 363