Roaming Mantis, part III

In Q2 2018, Kaspersky Lab published two blogposts about Roaming Mantis sharing details of this new cybercriminal campaign. In the beginning, the criminals used DNS hijacking in vulnerable routers to spread malicious Android applications of Roaming Mantis aka MoqHao and XLoader, spoofing legitimat...

XBash Malware Packs Double Punch: Destroys Data and Mines for Crypto Coins

Researchers have discovered a new sophisticated malware family in the wild, which wrecks havoc on Windows and Linux systems with a combination of data destructive ransomware and malicious cryptomining. The malware, dubbed by Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 researchers who discovered it as Xbash, has...

Thousands of MikroTik Routers Hacked to Eavesdrop On Network Traffic

Last month we reported about a widespread crypto-mining malware campaign that hijacked over 200,000 MikroTik routers using a previously disclosed vulnerability revealed in the CIA Vault 7 leaks. Now Chinese security researchers at Qihoo 360 Netlab have discovered that out of 370,000 potentially...

Drupal, Phishing and A New Cryptomining Botnet

It’s a well-known fact that security solutions must quickly adapt to new attack methods. There are several ways to achieve this goal, regularly applying security patches and updates, relying on threat intelligence and more. At Imperva, we use pattern anomaly detection as one of the tools to...

CoinHive URL Shortener Abused to Secretly Mine Cryptocurrency Using Hacked Sites

Security researchers have been warning about a new malicious campaign that leverages an alternative scheme to mine cryptocurrencies without directly injecting the infamous CoinHive JavaScript into thousands of hacked websites. Coinhive is a popular browser-based service that offers website owners...

Cb ThreatSight Investigation Reveals RETADUP Worm Leverages AutoIt to Launch Monero Cryptomining Campaign

While monitoring a customer’s environment, the Carbon Black ThreatSight team discovered a series of unusual alerts. Further investigation of the suspect processes revealed these alerts were related to an attacker leveraging the open-source Monero framework to launch a crypto-mining campaign. Afte...

Amazon Fire TV & Fire TV Stick hit by crypto mining Android malware

By Waqas A traditional malware aims at stealing user data or keep This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Amazon Fire TV & Fire TV Stick hit by crypto mining Android malware...

Redis Server compromised by 'RedisWannaMine' Attack - Active Check

The remote Redis server is unprotected and has been compromised via the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only CPE =...

Pocket cryptofarms

In recent months, the topic of cryptocurrency has been a permanent news fixture — the value of digital money has been see-sawing spectacularly. Such pyrotechnics could hardly have escaped the attention of scammers, which is why cryptocurrency fluctuations have gone hand in hand with all kinds of...

New Research: Crypto-mining Drives Almost 90% of All Remote Code Execution Attacks

It’s early in 2018 and we have already witnessed one of the top contenders in this year’s web application attacks. Continuing the trend from the last months of 2017, crypto-mining malware is quickly becoming attackers’ favorite modus operandi. In December 2017, 88 percent of all remote code...

CVE-2017-10271 Used to Deliver CryptoMiners: An Overview of Techniques Used Post-Exploitation and Pre-Mining

Introduction FireEye researchers recently observed threat actors abusing CVE-2017-10271 to deliver various cryptocurrency miners. CVE-2017-10271 is a known input validation vulnerability that exists in the WebLogic Server Security Service WLS Security in Oracle WebLogic Server versions 12.2.1.2.0...

Deserialization Attacks Surge Motivated by Illegal Crypto-mining

Imperva’s research group is constantly monitoring new web application vulnerabilities. In doing so, we’ve noticed at least four major insecure deserialization vulnerabilities that were published in the past year. Our analysis shows that, in the past three months, the number of deserialization...

Largest Crypto-Mining Exchange Hacked; Over $70 Million in Bitcoin Stolen

Bitcoin is breaking every record—after gaining 20% jump last week, Bitcoin price just crossed the $14,800 mark in less than 24 hours—and there can be no better reason for hackers to put all of their efforts to steal skyrocketing cryptocurrency. NiceHash, the largest Bitcoin mining marketplace, ha...

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...