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Popular NPM Package Hijacked to Publish Crypto-mining Malware
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency on Friday warned of crypto-mining and password-stealing malware embedded in "UAParser.js," a popular JavaScript NPM library with over 6 million weekly downloads, days after the NPM repository moved to get rid of three rogue packages that...
Attackers exploit CVE-2021-26084 for XMRig crypto mining on affected Confluence servers
Vulnerability Overview On August 25, 2021 a security advisory was released for a vulnerability identified in Confluence Server titled “CVE-2021-26084: Atlassian Confluence OGNL Injection”. The vulnerability allows an unauthenticated attacker to perform remote command execution by taking advantage...
This Week in Security News - August 27, 2021
Key takeaways from H1’ 2021 Linux threat report and Google removes fake crypto-mining apps and more...
7 ways to harden your environment against compromise
Here at the global Microsoft Compromise Recovery Security Practice CRSP, we work with customers who have experienced disruptive security incidents to restore trust in identity systems and remove adversary control. During 2020, the team responded to many incidents involving ransomware and the...
7 ways to harden your environment against compromise
Here at the global Microsoft Compromise Recovery Security Practice CRSP, we work with customers who have experienced disruptive security incidents to restore trust in identity systems and remove adversary control. During 2020, the team responded to many incidents involving ransomware and the...
Microsoft Warns of LemonDuck Malware Targeting Windows and Linux Systems
An infamous cross-platform crypto-mining malware has continued to refine and improve upon its techniques to strike both Windows and Linux operating systems by setting its sights on older vulnerabilities, while simultaneously latching on to a variety of spreading mechanisms to maximize the...
Necro Python Malware Upgrades With New Exploits and Crypto Mining Capabilities
New upgrades have been made to a Python-based "self-replicating, polymorphic bot" called Necro in what's seen as an attempt to improve its chances of infecting vulnerable systems and evading detection. "Although the bot was originally discovered earlier this year, the latest activity shows numero...
Benefits of Building a Multi-prong Mousetrap for WAF Policies with ML
The reason behind buying a market-leading Web Application Firewall WAF is to protect your website and web applications from malicious attacks, plus complying with industry or regional data and privacy standards. In addition to the typical OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities, WAFs need to address a litan...
Securing Containers and Kubernetes-Orchestrated Environments
In a recent Black Hat webcast, “Securing Containers and Kubernetes-Orchestrated Environments,” sponsored by VMware Carbon Black, guest speakers Sheila A. Berta, Offensive Security Specialist, Dreamlab Technologies and Haim Helman, CTO, VMware Carbon Black App Security, VMware Security Business...
Microsoft Exchange attacks cause panic as criminals go shell collecting
Only last week we posted a blog about multiple zero-day exploits being used to attack on-premises versions of Microsoft Exchange Server in limited and targeted attacks. Seeing how this disclosure came with a patch being available, under normal circumstances you would see some companies update...
Botnet Abusing Bitcoin Blockchain To Evade Detection
By Deeba Ahmed Cybercriminals are abusing Bitcoin transactions to carry out illegal crypto mining operations while staying under the radar. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Botnet Abusing Bitcoin Blockchain To Evade Detection...
Nvidia's Anti-Cryptomining GPU Chip May Not Discourage Attacks
Nvidia, the chip company known for its gaming-friendly graphical processing units GPUs, said that its hotly anticipated GeForce RTX 3060 chipset, launching Thursday, has an added bonus of thwarting crypto-mining. Experts applaud the effort, but are skeptical the move will take the bullseye off th...
Malicious Package
jquerry is a malicious package. The index.js file downloads and executes a crypto mining script. However, the script is not executed upon installation...
Malicious Package
Overview All versions of jquerry contain malicious code. The index.js file appears to download and execute a crypto mining script. The file is not run upon installation - the package needs to be required or the index.js run manually. Recommendation Any computer that has this package installed or...
MTN Group: RXSS - http://macademy.mtnonline.com
The page located at http://macademy.mtnonline.com suffers from a Cross-site Scripting XSS vulnerability. XSS is a vulnerability that occurs when user input is unsafely encorporated into the HTML markup inside of a webpage. When not properly escaped an attacker can inject malicious JavaScript that...
MrbMiner Crypto-Mining Malware Links to Iranian Software Company
A relatively new crypto-mining malware that surfaced last year and infected thousands of Microsoft SQL Server MSSQL databases has now been linked to a small software development company based in Iran. The attribution was made possible due to an operational security oversight, said researchers fro...
MrbMiner Crypto-Mining Malware Links to Iranian Software Company
A relatively new crypto-mining malware that surfaced last year and infected thousands of Microsoft SQL Server MSSQL databases has now been linked to a small software development company based in Iran. The attribution was made possible due to an operational security oversight, said researchers fro...
FreakOut! Ongoing Botnet Attack Exploiting Recent Linux Vulnerabilities
An ongoing malware campaign has been found exploiting recently disclosed vulnerabilities in network-attached storage NAS devices running on Linux systems to co-opt the machines into an IRC botnet for launching distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks and mining Monero cryptocurrency. The attack...
Python Cryptominer Botnet Quickly Adopts Latest Vulnerabilities
Over the last few days, Imperva researchers have monitored the emergence of a new botnet, one whose primary activity is performing different DDoS attacks and mining cryptocurrency. It also acts as a worm trying to extend its reach by scanning specific subnets and ports and using different remote...
Multiple Botnets Exploiting Critical Oracle WebLogic Bug — PATCH NOW
Multiple botnets are targeting thousands of publicly exposed and still unpatched Oracle WebLogic servers to deploy crypto miners and steal sensitive information from infected systems. The attacks are taking aim at a recently patched WebLogic Server vulnerability, which was released by Oracle as...