Hackers Exploit Apache HTTP Server Flaw to Deploy Linuxsys Cryptocurrency Miner

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new campaign that exploits a known security flaw impacting Apache HTTP Server to deliver a cryptocurrency miner called Linuxsys. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2021-41773 CVSS score: 7.5, a high-severity path traversal vulnerability in Apache HTTP...

Rational Miner Behaviour, Protocol Stability, and Time Preference: an Austrian and Game-Theoretic Analysis of Bitcoin'S Incentive Environment

This paper integrates Austrian capital theory with repeated game theory to examine strategic miner behaviour under different institutional conditions in blockchain systems. It shows that when protocol rules are mutable, effective time preference rises, undermining rational long-term planning and...

The Redundancy of Full Nodes in Bitcoin: a Network-Theoretic Demonstration of Miner-Centric Propagation Topologies

This paper formally examines the network structure of Bitcoin CORE BTC and Bitcoin Satoshi Vision BSV using complex graph theory to demonstrate that home-hosted full nodes are incapable of participating in or influencing the propagation topology. Leveraging established models such as scale-free...

Rare Werewolf APT Uses Legitimate Software in Attacks on Hundreds of Russian Enterprises

The threat actor known as Rare Werewolf formerly Rare Wolf has been linked to a series of cyber attacks targeting Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States CIS countries. "A distinctive feature of this threat is that the attackers favor using legitimate third-party software over developin...

Mimo Hackers Exploit CVE-2025-32432 in Craft CMS to Deploy Cryptominer and Proxyware

A financially motivated threat actor has been observed exploiting a recently disclosed remote code execution flaw affecting the Craft Content Management System CMS to deploy multiple payloads, including a cryptocurrency miner, a loader dubbed Mimo Loader, and residential proxyware. The...

CVE-2022-36604

An access control issue in Canaan Avalon ASIC Miner 2020.3.30 and below allows unauthenticated attackers to arbitrarily change user passwords via a crafted POST request...

CVE-2021-21405

Lotus is an Implementation of the Filecoin protocol written in Go. BLS signature validation in lotus uses blst library method VerifyCompressed. This method accepts signatures in 2 forms: "serialized", and "compressed", meaning that BLS signatures can be provided as either of 2 unique byte arrays...

CVE-2019-6121

An issue was discovered in NiceHash Miner before 2.0.3.0. Missing Authorization allows an adversary to can gain access to a miner's information about such as his recent payments, unclaimed Balance, Old Balance at the time of December 2017 breach , Projected payout, Mining stats like profitability...

CVE-2019-6122

A Username Enumeration via Error Message issue was discovered in NiceHash Miner before 2.0.3.0 because an "EMAIL DOES NOT EXIST" error message occurs whenever a submitted email address is incorrect, but there is a different error message for invalid credentials with a correct email address...

CVE-2019-6120

An issue was discovered in NiceHash Miner before 2.0.3.0. A missing rate limit while adding a wallet via Email address allows remote attackers to submit a large number of email addresses to identify valid ones. By exploiting this vulnerability with CVE-2019-6122 Username Enumeration an adversary...

Dero miner zombies biting through Docker APIs to build a cryptojacking horde

Introduction Imagine a container zombie outbreak where a single infected container scans the internet for an exposed Docker API, and bites exploits it by creating new malicious containers and compromising the running ones, thus transforming them into new "zombies" that will mine for Dero currency...

Go-Based Malware Deploys XMRig Miner on Linux Hosts via Redis Configuration Abuse

Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a new Linux cryptojacking campaign that's targeting publicly accessible Redis servers. The malicious activity has been codenamed RedisRaider by Datadog Security Labs. "RedisRaider aggressively scans randomized portions of the IPv4 space and uses...

Cryptocurrency Miner and Clipper Malware Spread via SourceForge Cracked Software Listings

Threat actors have been observed distributing malicious payloads such as cryptocurrency miner and clipper malware via SourceForge, a popular software hosting service, under the guise of cracked versions of legitimate applications like Microsoft Office. "One such project, officepackage, on the mai...

YouTube Game Cheats Spread Arcane Stealer Malware to Russian-Speaking Users

YouTube videos promoting game cheats are being used to deliver a previously undocumented stealer malware called Arcane likely targeting Russian-speaking users. "What's intriguing about this malware is how much it collects," Kaspersky said in an analysis. "It grabs account information from VPN and...

Hackers Exploit Severe PHP Flaw to Deploy Quasar RAT and XMRig Miners

Threat actors are exploiting a severe security flaw in PHP to deliver cryptocurrency miners and remote access trojans RATs like Quasar RAT. The vulnerability, assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2024-4577, refers to an argument injection vulnerability in PHP affecting Windows-based systems running in...

CVE-2025-27579

In Bitaxe ESP-Miner before 2.5.0 with AxeOS, one can use an /api/system CSRF attack to update the payout address aka stratumUser for a Bitaxe Bitcoin miner, or change the frequency and voltage settings...

CVE-2025-27579

In Bitaxe ESP-Miner before 2.5.0 with AxeOS, one can use an /api/system CSRF attack to update the payout address aka stratumUser for a Bitaxe Bitcoin miner, or change the frequency and voltage settings...

ESP-Miner 跨站请求伪造漏洞

ESP-Miner is an ESP32 bitcoin-related program by Skot Individual Developers. A security vulnerability exists in ESP-Miner versions prior to 2.5.0. An attacker exploiting the vulnerability could modify the payment address or frequency and voltage settings...

CVE-2025-27579

In Bitaxe ESP-Miner before 2.5.0 with AxeOS, one can use an /api/system CSRF attack to update the payout address aka stratumUser for a Bitaxe Bitcoin miner, or change the frequency and voltage settings...

CVE-2025-27579

In Bitaxe ESP-Miner before 2.5.0 with AxeOS, one can use an /api/system CSRF attack to update the payout address aka stratumUser for a Bitaxe Bitcoin miner, or change the frequency and voltage settings...