Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Three men who admitted to being the authors of the Mirai botnet avoided the jail after helping the FBI in other cybercrime investigations. Now three individuals who admitted to being the authors of the infamous botnet avoided the jail after helping feds in another cybercrime investigations. ” continues the press release.

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Webroot

JANUARY 7, 2022

In particular, we witnessed an increase in distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks and a surge in the usage of the internet of things (IoT). The cybercrime marketplace also continued to get more robust while the barrier to entry for malicious actors continued to drop. Cryptocurrency.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

A new Linux malware dubbed Shikitega leverages a multi-stage infection chain to target endpoints and IoT devices. Researchers from AT&T Alien Labs discovered a new piece of stealthy Linux malware, dubbed Shikitega, that targets endpoints and IoT devices.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 17, 2022

Cryptocurrency wallet attacks. People new to cryptocurrency often gravitate to services which take the hassle out of setting everything up. Some folks may feel the above process isn’t as secure as storing their cryptocurrency on standalone devices. Below, we dig into a few of those. Ransomware supply chain triple-threat.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 30, 2018

In September, Jha and two accomplices admitted to be the authors of the infamous botnet and avoided the jail after helping feds in another cybercrime investigations. “At times, Jha succeeded in taking the portal offline for multiple consecutive periods, causing damage to Rutgers University, its faculty, and its students.”.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2018

New XBash malware combines features from ransomware, cryptocurrency miners, botnets, and worms. Evolution of threat landscape for IoT devices – H1 2018. Magecart cybercrime group stole customers credit cards from Newegg electronics retailer. Hackers stole $60 Million worth of cryptocurrencies from Japanese Zaif exchange.

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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. SecurityAffairs – hacking, IoT). Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Hacktivists hacked an Irish water utility and interrupted the water supply 5Ghoul flaws impact hundreds of 5G devices with Qualcomm, MediaTek chips Norton Healthcare disclosed a data breach after a ransomware attack Bypassing major EDRs using Pool Party process injection techniques Founder of Bitzlato exchange has pleaded for unlicensed money transmitting (..)

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Microsoft recently released its Digital Defense Report 2022 , examining the current threat landscape, touching on the first "hybrid war" that is the Ukraine-Russia conflict, reviewing the current state of cybercrime, and identifying the characteristics needed to successfully defend against future threats. The key takeaway?

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Unlike other botnets, Gluteba leverages cryptocurrency blockchains as a command-and-control mechanism in an attempt to make it more resilient to takeover. Google pointed out that Glupteba operators have resumed activity using platforms and IoT devices that are not operated by Google. “But there’s a lot more work to be done.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

While the resource was down, cryptocurrency newbies were invited to download a copy of Bitcoin Core via a torrenting service. Cybercriminals used the names of well-known APT groups to intimidate victims, demanded ransoms in cryptocurrency, and carried out demonstration attacks to back up their threats.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

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Security Affairs

JUNE 26, 2024

Researchers warn that the P2Pinfect worm is targeting Redis servers with ransomware and cryptocurrency mining payloads. Cado Security researchers warned that the P2Pinfect worm is employed in attacks against Redis servers, aimed at deploying both ransomware and cryptocurrency mining payloads.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 9, 2022

billion from cryptocurrency exchanges Crypto security breaches cause $4.25 billion from cryptocurrency exchanges Crypto security breaches cause $4.25 The vendor’s instructions Threat actor targets VMware Horizon servers using Log4Shell exploits, UK NHS warns Norton Crypto, the controversial cryptomining feature of Norton 360 Over 3.7

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Herjavec Group

OCTOBER 27, 2020

According to Cybersecurity Ventures – cybercrime will cost the world $6 trillion annually by 2021 ! Cybercrime will cost the world $6 trillion annually by 2021 , up from $3 trillion in 2015. Ransomware, the fastest growing type of cybercrime, cost the world $11.5 Cyber Primer for the C-Suite.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Twitter will allow using the SMS-based two-factor authentication (2FA) only to its Blue subscribers GoDaddy discloses a new data breach Fortinet fixes critical vulnerabilities in FortiNAC and FortiWeb German airport websites hit by DDos attacks once again Cisco fixed critical RCE bug in ClamAV Open-Source Antivirus engine CISA adds Cacti, Office, Windows (..)

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

This is particularly notable in the case of Lazarus APT, specifically its attacks against cryptocurrency investors in May. For instance, several days ago, personal data related to Amazon employees that was allegedly leaked over the course of the MOVEit vulnerability attack was leaked on a cybercrime forum.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Kaye laundered cryptocurrency obtained from the illegal The Real Deal operation through the mixing service Bitmixer.io. The man used a custom version of the Mirai IoT malware. The man, along with other individuals of a gang known as “ thedarkoverlord ,” trafficked in stolen social security numbers. government agencies,” said U.S. .’s

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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

AUGUST 4, 2018

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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

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Hundreds of thousands of fake warnings of cyberattacks sent from a hacked FBI email server GravityRAT returns disguised as an end-to-end encrypted chat app Intel and AMD address high severity vulnerabilities in products and drivers New evolving Abcbot DDoS botnet targets Linux systems Retail giant Costco discloses data breach, payment card data exposed (..)

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2020

The Outlaw Botnet uses brute force and SSH exploit (exploit Shellshock Flaw and Drupalgeddon2 vulnerability ) to achieve remote access to the target systems, including server and IoT devices. The first version spotted by TrendMicro includes a DDoS script that could be used by botmaster to set-up DDoS for-hire service offered on the dark web.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Together, we’ve not only dismantled malicious infrastructure but also prevented hundreds of thousands of potential victims from falling prey to cybercrime ,” Neal Jetton, Director of Interpol’s Cybercrime Directorate, said in a statement.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 27, 2023

Some of them are also Windows Embedded, indicating the penetration of such malware operation even into IoT environments. Most of the victims mount Windows 10 Professional and Enterprise operating systems, including several Datacenter versions of Windows Server. The module also exfiltrates 2FA secrets from Twilio’s Authy local storage.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

For access to the decryption key, the victim must make prompt payment, often in cryptocurrency shielding the attacker’s identity. The Ryuk ransomware family spawned in 2018 from a sophisticated Russia-based cybercrime group. Increased attacks on individuals with high net value and Internet of Things (IoT) devices ( McAfee ).

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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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SecureList

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Another actor, the operator of two “stressers” (used to carry out DDoS attacks) was found guilty of cybercrime in court. This is noteworthy, because the cryptocurrency market remains as strong as before, while the DDoS market growth is similar to what we saw before cryptocurrencies began skyrocketing.

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SecureList

JULY 28, 2021

In particular, Gafgyt’s authors copied its implementation of various DDoS methods, such as TCP, UDP and HTTP flooding, as well as its brute-force functionality for hacking IoT devices via the Telnet protocol. Attacks on IoT honeypots. This involved studying the statistics on Telnet and SSH attacks on our IoT honeypots.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Glupteba consists of a million infected IoT devices and Windows computers. The botnet can also install proxy servers on infected devices, mine cryptocurrency and conduct DDoS attacks. In addition, the size of the DDoS market is inversely proportional to that of the cryptocurrency market, which we’ve written about several times.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

CISA adds new Ivanti Cloud Services Appliance Vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog Ivanti warns of a new actively exploited Cloud Services Appliance (CSA) flaw International law enforcement operation dismantled criminal communication platform Ghost U.S.

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SecureList

AUGUST 3, 2022

DDoS attacks on websites associated with cryptocurrency are anything but rare. They are often timed to coincide with landmark events, such as new cryptocurrency launches and rate fluctuations. Unlike larger, but less powerful zombie networks composed of IoT devices, these utilized web servers and virtual machines.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

CISA adds two F5 BIG-IP flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog Threat actors actively exploit F5 BIG-IP flaws CVE-2023-46747 and CVE-2023-46748 Pro-Hamas hacktivist group targets Israel with BiBi-Linux wiper British Library suffers major outage due to cyberattack Critical Atlassian Confluence flaw can lead to significant data loss WiHD (..)

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 8, 2021

At the same time, at the Aspen Cyber Summit, Monaco announced two initiatives aimed at forcing government contractors to disclose when they have been attacked and targeting the role of cryptocurrency in ransomware campaigns. Cryptocurrency Needs to Be Addressed. Without cryptocurrency, there would be no ransomware,” Bambenek said.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 25, 2021

The federal government has become increasingly involved in pushing back against cybercrime, particularly ransomware. We see that trend in cybercrime almost every year after Christmas and holidays,” he said. Ransomware is the Focus. Feds Step Up Response.

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Adam Levin

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Ransomware was a relatively obscure form of malware until the early 2010s , but it has increased in scope and the amount of damage it has caused year after year, aided by a proliferation of botnets , cryptocurrencies , and sophisticated criminal enterprises. Unfortunately, IoT devices can be vulnerable to data leaks, cyberattacks and hackers.

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