New Mac cryptominer Malwarebytes detects as Bird Miner runs by emulating Linux

A new Mac cryptocurrency miner Malwarebytes detects as Bird Miner has been found in a cracked installer for the high-end music production software Ableton Live. The software is used as an instrument for live performances by DJs, as well as a tool for composing, recording, mixing, and mastering. A...

Millions of Linux Servers Under Worm Attack Via Exim Flaw

A widespread campaign is exploiting a vulnerability in the Exim mail transport agent MTA to gain remote command-execution on victims’ Linux systems. Researchers say that currently more than 3.5 million servers are at risk from the attacks, which are using a wormable exploit. Specifically under...

This Week in Security News: Gray Alerts and Wormable Malware

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, learn about the new wormable malware that’s dropping a Monero miner in web servers, networks and removable drivers. Also, read about the bes...

Malicious Package

blubird is a malicious package. It contains a malware that attempts to start a cryptocurrency miner using coin-hive...

Malicious Package

commqnder is a malicious package. It contains a malware that attempts to start a cryptocurrency miner using coin-hive...

Malicious Package

epress is a malicious package. It contains a malware that attempts to start a cryptocurrency miner using coin-hive...

Malicious Package

Overview 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...

Malicious Package

Overview 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...

Malicious Package

Overview 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 packag...

Malicious Package

Overview 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...

Hidden Bee: Let’s go down the rabbit hole

Some time ago, we discussed the interesting malware, Hidden Bee. It is a Chinese miner, composed of userland components, as well as of a bootkit part. One of its unique features is a custom format used for some of the high-level elements this format was featured in my recent presentation at SAS...

This Week in Security News: Skimming Attacks and Ransomware

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, learn how credit card skimming attacks can impact businesses and how ransomware can use software installations to help hide malicious...

Shr3dKit

This is an offensive tool for Red Team operations. The tool kit, named Shr3dKit, is a collection of scripts and tools for various stages of a Red Team engagement, including reconnaissance, weaponization, delivery, command and control, lateral movement, establishing a foothold, escalating...

Hackers Actively Exploiting Latest Drupal RCE Flaw Published Last Week

Cybercriminals have actively started exploiting an already patched security vulnerability in the wild to install cryptocurrency miners on vulnerable Drupal websites that have not yet applied patches and are still vulnerable. Last week, developers of the popular open-source content management syst...

Cryptomining Malware Uninstalls Cloud Security Products

Researchers say they have discovered a unique malware family capable of gaining admin rights on targeted systems by uninstalling cloud-security products. Instances of the malicious activity are tied to coin-mining malware targeting Linux servers. Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42, which published the...

What happens when packages go bad?

I built spritecow.com back in 2011, and I no longer actively maintain it. A few months ago, a user berated me for using a crypto currency miner on the site without their informed consent. And sure enough, the site's JS had a small addition that loaded the mining JS, and sent the result somewhere...

Fake Adobe Flash Updates Hide Malicious Crypto Miners

While fake Flash updates that push malware have traditionally been easy to spot and avoid, a new campaign has employed new tricks that stealthily download cryptocurrency miners on Windows systems. To the average user, the newly discovered samples, which have been active as early as August, seem...

openSUSE: Security Advisory for bitcoin (openSUSE-SU-2018:3001-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Copyright C 2018 Greenbone Networks GmbH Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later This program is free software; you can...

[ASA-201809-2] bitcoin-qt: denial of service

Arch Linux Security Advisory ASA-201809-2 ========================================= Severity: Medium Date : 2018-09-22 CVE-ID : CVE-2018-17144 Package : bitcoin-qt Type : denial of service Remote : Yes Link : https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-766 Summary ======= The package bitcoin-qt before...

Active Campaign Exploits Critical Apache Struts 2 Flaw in the Wild

It was only a matter of time before attacks were seen in the wild, and now it’s happened. A known threat actor has mounted a large cryptomining campaign using the recently disclosed Apache Struts 2 critical remote code-execution vulnerability. It uses a new malware designed for persistence and...