In a collaborative effort, security researchers with Avast and the French police took down a massive cryptomining botnet earlier this year. The botnet consisted of 850,000 machines that were infected …
Norman Cryptominer Employs Sophisticated Obfuscation Tactics
Security researchers with Varonis have spotted a sophisticated new strain of cryptomining malware that uses various obfuscation tactics in order to avoid detection. The researchers describe the …
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Smominru hijacks half a million PCs to mine cryptocurrency, steals access data for Dark Web sale
Carbon Black researchers are tracking a cryptomining campaign that has already infected more that 500,000 machines with Smominru malware that enslaves them into a massive botnet. According …
New Golang malware plays the Linux field in quest for cryptocurrency
Palo Alto Networks researchers have discovered a new strain of cryptojacking malware written in the Go programming language. The malware, dubbed Golang, uses the resourcing powers of infected systems …
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Modular Backdoor Can Spread Over Local Network
A new report by Kaspersky provides insight into Plurox, a highly sophisticated piece of malware first discovered in February. Plurox is a modular backdoor capable of distributing itself across …
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Ransomware rebounding in popularity as cryptojacking loses steam
Ransomware campaigns surged by 167% between Q4 of last year and the first three months of 2019, new research by Positive Technologies shows. Ransomware now accounts for 24% of all cyberattacks, up …
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Massive DDoS attacks lasting more than an hour increased 487% in 2019
New Kaspersky Lab research shows that distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks surged by 84% in the first three months of this year. This growth reverses the downward trend that was recorded …
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Ransomware and malware attacks decline, attackers adopting covert tactics
New figures released by Microsoft indicate that global ransomware attacks fell by 60% between March and December of last year, while malware attacks declined in general. Instead, threat actors are …
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Bad security hygiene still a major risk for enterprise IT networks
A new report[pdf] by Ixia analyses the 2018 cyber threat landscape. According to the report the 5 main security issues last year were: Most product vulnerabilities were the result of software …
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The correlation between DDoS attacks and cryptomining
A new NSFOCUS report indicates that the declining price of cryptocurrencies in 2018 prompted threat actors to stop using botnet resources for cryptomining attacks - as these were getting less and …
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