Malicious code in selenium-plugin (PyPI)

Source: kam193 6e002fd5736f780c2fc01668d4e37d008d211fa2547b96cb960b11edd5b87d64 During installation or importing, the package downloads a small executable and register autostart of its. While it's hard to get the full activity of the executable, it does download what appears to be an encrypted da...

Podcast: Why Bitcoin Miners Target Critical Infrastructure Networks

On this week’s Threatpost Podcast show, we sit down with Ronen Rabinovich from Cyberbit to discuss bitcoin mining on operational technology and critical infrastructure networks. Rabinovich talks about why the massive amount of computing power and lack of security and monitoring tools make...

Questions Arise About Bitcoin Security Paper

In the wake of the publication of a new academic paper that says there is a fundamental flaw in the Bitcoin protocol that could allow a small cartel of participants to become powerful enough that it could take over the mining process and gather a disproportionate amount of the value in the system...