Hunting in the Dark: Metrics for Early Stage Traffic Discovery

Threat hunting is an operational security process where an expert analyzes traffic, applying knowledge and lightweight tools on unlabeled data in order to identify and classify previously unknown phenomena. In this paper, we examine threat hunting metrics and practice by studying the detection of...

Crackonosh virus mined $2 million of Monero from 222,000 hacked computers

A previously undocumented Windows malware has infected over 222,000 systems worldwide since at least June 2018, yielding its developer no less than 9,000 Moneros $2 million in illegal profits. Dubbed "Crackonosh," the malware is distributed via illegal, cracked copies of popular software, only to...