The Pirate Bay Caught Running Browser-Based Cryptocurrency Miner

The world's popular torrent download website, The Pirate Bay, has again been in a new controversy—this time over secretly planting an in-browser cryptocurrency miner on its website that utilizes its visitors' CPU processing power in order to mine digital currencies. The Pirate Bay is the most...

Pirate Bay Spotted Hosting Monero Cryptocurrency Miner

A cryptocurrency miner surfaced on the world’s largest torrenting site for a day over the weekend, raising the ire of users unaware the tool was there, let alone leveraging their machine’s computing power. Users noticed the miner Friday night on The Pirate Bay, a site that acts as a treasure trov...

Monero: Monero Website & Kovri on your policy are returning 404 not found.

Hi Team, Issue The Monero Website are returning 404 not found. Please kindly check it Monero Website 404 response: F217540...

Monero: TabNabbing issue (due to taget=_blank)

Hi team, i get to know in this particular url https://getmonero.org/get-started/what-is-monero/ and i found one 3rd party url. Issue lies Here : Here i can see you are using target=blank and no more rel tag. Here , target=blank means it will open in another new tab. but due to tabnabbing it can...

Revamped Nukebot Malware Changes Targets, Adds Functions

A revamped version of the Nukebot banking trojan dubbed Jimmy Nukebot has shifted focus from stealing bankcard data and now acts as a conduit for quietly downloading malicious payloads for web-injects, cryptocurrency mining, and taking screenshots of targeted systems. The code is a modification o...

Jimmy Nukebot: from Neutrino with love

"You FOOL! This isn't even my final form!" In one of our previous articles, we analyzed the NeutrinoPOS banker as an example of a constantly evolving malware family. A week after publication, this Neutrino modification delivered up a new malicious program classified by Kaspersky Lab as...

Cryptocurrency Mining Malware Hosted in Amazon S3 Bucket

As Bitcoin’s price continues to soar beyond $4,000 USD per, cybercriminals are responding in kind by using techniques long reserved for adware, click-fraud and spying to now drop cryptocurrency miners onto compromised computers. The latest incident comes from a rash of drive-by downloads that are...

Neptune Exploit Kit Dropping Cryptocurrency Miners Through Malvertisements

Despite a marked decrease in activity, exploit kits haven’t completely disappeared just yet. The Neptune, or Terror Exploit Kit, is alive and well; during the last month, researchers have observed the kit as part of a campaign to abuse a legitimate popup ad service to drop cryptocurrency miners...

Hiking Club Malvertisements Drop Monero Miners Via Neptune Exploit Kit

Exploit kit EK activity has been on the decline ever since Angler Exploit Kit was shut down in 2016. Fewer people using Internet Explorer and a drop in browser support for Adobe Flash – two primary targets of many exploit kits – have also contributed to this decline. Additionally, some popular...

Hiking Club Malvertisements Drop Monero Miners Via Neptune Exploit Kit

Exploit kit EK activity has been on the decline ever since Angler Exploit Kit was shut down in 2016. Fewer people using Internet Explorer and a drop in browser support for Adobe Flash – two primary targets of many exploit kits – have also contributed to this decline. Additionally, some popular...

Attackers Mining Cryptocurrency Using Exploits for Samba Vulnerability

Unknown attackers are using a recently patched vulnerability in Samba to spread a resource-intensive cryptocurrency mining utility. To date, the operation has netted the attackers just under $6,000 USD, but the number of compromised computers is growing, meaning that a significant number of Samba...

Threat Round-up for May 19 - May 26

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between May 19 and May 26. As with previous round-ups, this post isn't meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, this post will summarize the threats we've observed by highlighting key behavior characteristics,...

WannaCry Shares Code with Lazarus APT Samples

As the first inkling of attribution emerged in the WannaCry ransomware outbreak, researchers found another attack using the same leaked NSA attack tools to spread the Adylkuzz cryptocurrency miner. Kafeine, a well-known exploit researcher who works for Proofpoint, said Monday that this attack cou...

Weeks Before WannaCry, Cryptocurrency Mining Botnet Was Using Windows SMB Exploit

A security researcher has just discovered a stealthy cryptocurrency-mining malware that was also using Windows SMB vulnerability at least two weeks before the outbreak of WannaCry ransomware attacks. According to Kafeine, a security researcher at Proofpoint, another group of cyber criminals was...