Wormable Gitpaste-12 Botnet Returns to Target Linux Servers, IoT Devices

A new wormable botnet that spreads via GitHub and Pastebin to install cryptocurrency miners and backdoors on target systems has returned with expanded capabilities to compromise web applications, IP cameras, and routers. Early last month, researchers from Juniper Threat Labs documented a...

Stantinko Botnet Now Targeting Linux Servers to Hide Behind Proxies

An adware and coin-miner botnet targeting Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and Kazakhstan at least since 2012 has now set its sights on Linux servers to fly under the radar. According to a new analysis published by Intezer today and shared with The Hacker News, the trojan masquerades as HTTPd, a commonl...

On the trail of the XMRig miner

As protection methods improve, the developers of miners have had to enhance their own creations, often turning to non-trivial solutions. Several such solutions previously unseen by us were detected during our analysis of the open source miner XMRig. How it all began: ransominer Alongside well-kno...

Lemon Duck brings cryptocurrency miners back into the spotlight

By Vanja Svajcer, with contributions from Caitlin Huey. We are used to ransomware attacks and big-game hunting making headlines, but there are still methods adversaries use to monetize their efforts in less intrusive ways.Cisco Talos recently recorded increased activity of the Lemon Duck...

Malicious Package in epress

Version 4.13.2 of epress contains malicious code . The package is malware designed to take advantage of users making a mistake when typing the name of a module to install. Upon require the package attempts to start a cryptocurrency miner using coin-hive. Recommendation Remove the package from you...

GHSA-Q42C-RRP3-R3XM Malicious Package in commmander

All versions of commmander contain malicious code . The package is malware designed to take advantage of users making a mistake when typing the name of a module to install. Upon require the package attempts to start a cryptocurrency miner using coin-hive. Recommendation Remove the package from yo...

Malicious Package in blubird

Version 3.5.0 of blubird contains malicious code . The package is malware designed to take advantage of users making a mistake when typing the name of a module to install. Upon require the package attempts to start a cryptocurrency miner using coin-hive. Recommendation Remove the package from you...

GHSA-RVWW-X6M4-4VC2 Malicious Package in blubird

Version 3.5.0 of blubird contains malicious code . The package is malware designed to take advantage of users making a mistake when typing the name of a module to install. Upon require the package attempts to start a cryptocurrency miner using coin-hive. Recommendation Remove the package from you...

GHSA-4XGP-XRG3-C73W Malicious Package in commqnder

All versions of commqnder contain malicious code . The package is malware designed to take advantage of users making a mistake when typing the name of a module to install. Upon require the package attempts to start a cryptocurrency miner using coin-hive. Recommendation Remove the package from you...

Malicious Package in commqnder

All versions of commqnder contain malicious code . The package is malware designed to take advantage of users making a mistake when typing the name of a module to install. Upon require the package attempts to start a cryptocurrency miner using coin-hive. Recommendation Remove the package from you...

GHSA-4XG9-G7QJ-JHG4 Malicious Package in comander

All versions of comander contains malicious code . The package is malware designed to take advantage of users making a mistake when typing the name of a module to install. Upon require the package attempts to start a cryptocurrency miner using coin-hive. Recommendation Remove the package from you...

Malicious Package in comander

All versions of comander contains malicious code . The package is malware designed to take advantage of users making a mistake when typing the name of a module to install. Upon require the package attempts to start a cryptocurrency miner using coin-hive. Recommendation Remove the package from you...

Silently Runs Cryptocoin Miner in hooka-tools

Affected versions of hooka-tools were compromised and modified to silently run a cryptocoin miner in the background. All affected versions have been unpublished from the npm registry. Recommendation While this module has been unpublished, some versions may exist in mirrors or caches. Do not insta...

GHSA-M36M-X4C5-RJXJ Silently Runs Cryptocoin Miner in hooka-tools

Affected versions of hooka-tools were compromised and modified to silently run a cryptocoin miner in the background. All affected versions have been unpublished from the npm registry. Recommendation While this module has been unpublished, some versions may exist in mirrors or caches. Do not insta...

Researchers Sound Alarm Over Malicious AWS Community AMIs

Researchers are sounding the alarm over what they say is a growing threat vector tied to Amazon Web Services and its marketplace of pre-configured virtual servers. The danger, according to researchers with Mitiga, is that threat actors can easily build malware-laced Community Amazon Machine Image...

EWBF Cuda Zcash Miner Security Breach

EWBF Cuda Zcash Miner is a software for mining bitcoins. miner statistics HTTP API is one of the statistics interfaces. A security vulnerability exists in the miner statistics HTTP API in EWBF Cuda Zcash Miner version 0.3.4b. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to deny users access to...

Self-Propagating Lucifer Malware Targets Windows Systems

Security experts have identified a self-propagating malware, dubbed Lucifer, that targets Windows systems with cryptojacking and distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks. The never-before-seen malware initially tries to infect PCs by bombarding them with exploits in hopes of taking advantage of...

Misconfigured Kubeflow workloads are a security risk

Azure Security Center ASC monitors and defends thousands of Kubernetes clusters running on top of AKS. Azure Security Center regularly searches for and research for new attack vectors against Kubernetes workloads. We recently published a blog post about a large scale campaign against Kubernetes...

EWBF Cuda Zcash Miner Security Breach

EWBF Cuda Zcash Miner is a software for mining bitcoins. miner statistics HTTP API is one of the statistics interfaces.A security vulnerability exists in the miner statistics HTTP API in EWBF Cuda Zcash Miner version 0.3.4b. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to deny users access to...

This Week in Security News: 7 Tips for Security Pros Patching in a Pandemic and Coinminer, DDoS Bot Attack Docker Daemon Ports

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, read about a malicious cryptocurrency miner and Distributed Denial of Service DDoS bot that targets open Docker daemon ports. Also, learn...