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This Week in Security News - April 1, 2022
Probing the activities of cloud-based cryptocurrency-mining groups, and Lapsus$ ‘back from vacation’...
Why Organizations Should Take Cloud-Based Cryptocurrency-Mining Attacks Seriously
One of the recent trends we’ve observed is the rise of cloud-based cryptocurrency-mining groups that exploit cloud resources, specifically the CPU power of deployed cloud instances, to mine cryptocurrency...
'Roaming Mantis' Android Malware Targeting Europeans via Smishing Campaigns
A financially motivated campaign that targets Android devices and spreads mobile malware via SMS phishing techniques since at least 2018 has spread its tentacles to strike victims located in France and Germany for the first time. Dubbed Roaming Mantis, the latest spate of activities observed in...
Dark Souls 3 Servers Shut Down Due to Critical RCE Bug
There’s a dangerous remote-code execution RCE bug in the Dark Souls video game that could let attackers brick the PCs of online players. The flaw could allow attackers to do pretty much anything: As Kaspersky researchers explained on Monday, the bug “allows an attacker to execute almost any progr...
Active Exploitation of VMware Horizon Servers
This post is co-authored by Charlie Stafford, Lead Security Researcher. We will update this blog with further information as it becomes available. CVE | Vendor Advisory | AttackerKB | IVM Content | Patching Urgency | Blog's Last Update ---|---|---|---|---|--- CVE-2021-44228 | VMware Advisory |...
Cryptomining Attack Exploits Docker API Misconfiguration Since 2019
Hackers behind a cryptomining campaign have managed to avoid detection since 2019. The attacks exploited misconfigured Docker APIs that allowed them to gain network entry and ultimately sets up a backdoor on compromised hosts to mine cryptocurrency, researchers said. The attack technique is...
Warning: Yet Another Bitcoin Mining Malware Targeting QNAP NAS Devices
Network-attached storage NAS appliance maker QNAP on Tuesday released a new advisory warning of a cryptocurrency mining malware targeting its devices, urging customers to take preventive steps with immediate effect. "A bitcoin miner has been reported to target QNAP NAS. Once a NAS is infected, CP...
Hackers Using Compromised Google Cloud Accounts to Mine Cryptocurrency
Threat actors are exploiting improperly-secured Google Cloud Platform GCP instances to download cryptocurrency mining software to the compromised systems as well as abusing its infrastructure to install ransomware, stage phishing campaigns, and even generate traffic to YouTube videos for view cou...
Google’s Threat Horizons report: Will the straightforward approach get results?
Google’s Cybersecurity Action Team has released a Threat Horizons report focusing on cloud security. It’s taken some criticism for being surprisingly straightforward and less complex than you may expect. On the other hand, many businesses simply don’t understand many of the threats at large...
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...
New Capoae Malware Infiltrates WordPress Sites and Installs Backdoored Plugin
A recently discovered wave of malware attacks has been spotted using a variety of tactics to enslave susceptible machines with easy-to-guess administrative credentials to co-opt them into a network with the goal of illegally mining cryptocurrency. "The malware's primary tactic is to spread by...
Financial Cybercrime: Why Cryptocurrency is the Perfect ‘Getaway Car’
This is Part I of a two-part series on how cybercrooks embrace and use cryptocurrency. To read Part II, please click here. It’s no secret: Hackers are out to make money. Over the summer, it seemed there was practically a new ransomware attack every day of the week. Whether it be Colonial Pipeline...
Cybercriminals Abusing Internet-Sharing Services to Monetize Malware Campaigns
Threat actors are capitalizing on the growing popularity of proxyware platforms like Honeygain and Nanowire to monetize their own malware campaigns, once again illustrating how attackers are quick to repurpose and weaponize legitimate platforms to their advantage. "Malware is currently leveraging...
Proxyware Services Open Orgs to Abuse – Report
Services that allow consumers to resell their own internet bandwidth for profit to businesses that want to resell it are ripe for abuse, according to researchers. The burgeoning business model is growing in popularity with consumers who earn about $1 for every 10GB of their bandwidth shared with...
When coin miners evolve, Part 2: Hunting down LemonDuck and LemonCat attacks
Note: In this two-part blog series, we expose a modern malware infrastructure and provide guidance for protecting against the wide range of threats it enables. Part 1 covered the evolution of the threat, how it spreads, and how it impacts organizations. Part 2 provides a deep dive on the attacker...
Crypto-Mining Attacks Targeting Kubernetes Clusters via Kubeflow Instances
Cybersecurity researchers on Tuesday disclosed a new large-scale campaign targeting Kubeflow deployments to run malicious cryptocurrency mining containers. The campaign involved deploying TensorFlow pods on Kubernetes clusters, with the pods running legitimate TensorFlow images from the official...
Phorpiex morphs: How a longstanding botnet persists and thrives in the current threat environment
Phorpiex, an enduring botnet known for extortion campaigns and for using old-fashioned worms that spread via removable USB drives and instant messaging apps, began diversifying its infrastructure in recent years to become more resilient and to deliver more dangerous payloads. Today, the Phorphiex...
Phorpiex morphs: How a longstanding botnet persists and thrives in the current threat environment
Phorpiex, an enduring botnet known for extortion campaigns and for using old-fashioned worms that spread via removable USB drives and instant messaging apps, began diversifying its infrastructure in recent years to become more resilient and to deliver more dangerous payloads. Today, the Phorphiex...
Defending against cryptojacking with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint and Intel TDT
Cryptocurrency mining—once considered no more than a nuisance, a relatively benign activity that was a drain on machine resources—has been on the rise in recent years. This increase in cryptocurrency mining activity is driven by the increasing value of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, the growth in...
Defending against cryptojacking with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint and Intel TDT
Cryptocurrency mining—once considered no more than a nuisance, a relatively benign activity that was a drain on machine resources—has been on the rise in recent years. This increase in cryptocurrency mining activity is driven by the increasing value of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, the growth in...