$2 million lost as WallStreetBets forum members fall for crypto scam

By Habiba Rashid WallStreetBets moderators had warned of crypto scams in their name yet scammers were still able to trick users into sending $2 million in Binance Coin BNB. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: $2 million lost as WallStreetBets forum members fall for crypto sca...

COVID-Related Threats, PowerShell Attacks Lead Malware Surge

Surging numbers of COVID-themed attacks, PowerShell trojans, along with the SolarWinds compromise and the continued spread of Sunburst malware were major contributors to a massive spike in the number of observed attacks in the wild during the last half of 2020, which McAfee’s said averaged 588...

CVE-2020-8807

In Electric Coin Company Zcashd before 2.1.1-1, the time offset between messages could be leveraged to obtain sensitive information about the relationship between a suspected victim's address and an IP address, aka a timing side channel...

CVE-2020-8806

Electric Coin Company Zcashd before 2.1.1-1 allows attackers to trigger consensus failure and double spending. A valid chain could be incorrectly rejected because timestamp requirements on block headers were not properly enforced...

Code injection

In Electric Coin Company Zcashd before 2.1.1-1, the time offset between messages could be leveraged to obtain sensitive information about the relationship between a suspected victim's address and an IP address, aka a timing side channel...

CVE-2020-8807

In Electric Coin Company Zcashd before 2.1.1-1, the time offset between messages could be leveraged to obtain sensitive information about the relationship between a suspected victim's address and an IP address, aka a timing side channel...

CVE-2020-8807

CVE-2020-8807 affects Electric Coin Company’s Zcashd prior to 2.1.1-1. The issue is a timing side channel: the time offset between messages can be exploited to deduce a relationship between a suspected victim’s address and an IP address. The Red Hat and NVD records confirm the vulnerability in Zc...

CVE-2020-8806

Electric Coin Company Zcashd before 2.1.1-1 allows attackers to trigger consensus failure and double spending. A valid chain could be incorrectly rejected because timestamp requirements on block headers were not properly enforced...

CVE-2020-8806

CVE-2020-8806 affects Electric Coin Company Zcashd (before 2.1.1-1). The root cause is improper enforcement of timestamp requirements on block headers, which could cause a valid chain to be rejected, enabling consensus failure and potential double spending. A fix is available in 2.1.1-1 (and hotf...

Electric Coin Company Zcashd Security Breach

Zcash is a decentralized open source data currency. Electric Coin Company Zcashd before 2.1.1-1 suffers from a security vulnerability that allows an attacker to trigger a consensus failure and double spend...

Electric Coin Zcash Security Breach

Zcash is a decentralized open source data currency.Zcashd is the daemon for Zcash. A security vulnerability exists in Electric Coin Zcashd before 2.1.1-1, which stems from a time offset between messages that can be used to obtain sensitive information about the relationship between a victim's...

PGMiner, Innovative Monero-Mining Botnet, Surprises Researchers

An innovative Linux-based cryptocurrency mining botnet has been uncovered, which exploits a disputed PostgreSQL remote code-execution RCE vulnerability to compromise database servers. The malware is unusual and completely novel in a host of ways, researchers said. According to researchers at Palo...

Nation-State Hackers Caught Hiding Espionage Activities Behind Crypto Miners

A nation-state actor known for its cyber espionage campaigns since 2012 is now using coin miner techniques to stay under the radar and establish persistence on victim systems, according to new research. Attributing the shift to a threat actor tracked as Bismuth, Microsoft's Microsoft 365 Defender...

Nation-State Hackers Caught Hiding Espionage Activities Behind Crypto Miners

A nation-state actor known for its cyber espionage campaigns since 2012 is now using coin miner techniques to stay under the radar and establish persistence on victim systems, according to new research. Attributing the shift to a threat actor tracked as Bismuth, Microsoft's Microsoft 365 Defender...

Threat actor leverages coin miner techniques to stay under the radar – here’s how to spot them

Cryptocurrency miners are typically associated with cybercriminal operations, not sophisticated nation state actor activity. They are not the most sophisticated type of threats, which also means that they are not among the most critical security issues that defenders address with urgency. Recent...

Threat actor leverages coin miner techniques to stay under the radar – here’s how to spot them

Cryptocurrency miners are typically associated with cybercriminal operations, not sophisticated nation state actor activity. They are not the most sophisticated type of threats, which also means that they are not among the most critical security issues that defenders address with urgency. Recent...

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...

ALERT! Hackers targeting IoT devices with a new P2P botnet malware

Cybersecurity researchers have taken the wraps off a new botnet hijacking Internet-connected smart devices in the wild to perform nefarious tasks, mostly DDoS attacks, and illicit cryptocurrency coin mining. Discovered by Qihoo 360's Netlab security team, the HEH Botnet — written in Go language a...

White hat hacker infects smart coffee machine with ransowmare

By Waqas Avast security researcher reverse-engineered an IoT coffee machine to upload ransomware and mine Monero coin. Smart appliances have always remained a risky option for consumers, specifically when it comes to coffee machines. Back in 2015, Pen Test Partners researchers discovered security...

roman-coin.co.uk Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-1332210

Following coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbspa. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbspb. notified the website operator about its existence...