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10-Year-Old 'RUBYCARP' Romanian Hacker Group Surfaces with Botnet
A threat group of suspected Romanian origin called RUBYCARP has been observed maintaining a long-running botnet for carrying out crypto mining, distributed denial-of-service DDoS, and phishing attacks. The group, believed to be active for at least 10 years, employs the botnet for financial gain,...
Hackers Exploit Misconfigured YARN, Docker, Confluence, Redis Servers for Crypto Mining
Threat actors are targeting misconfigured and vulnerable servers running Apache Hadoop YARN, Docker, Atlassian Confluence, and Redis services as part of an emerging malware campaign designed to deliver a cryptocurrency miner and spawn a reverse shell for persistent remote access. "The attackers...
NoaBot: Latest Mirai-Based Botnet Targeting SSH Servers for Crypto Mining
A new Mirai-based botnet called NoaBot is being used by threat actors as part of a crypto mining campaign since the beginning of 2023. "The capabilities of the new botnet, NoaBot, include a wormable self-spreader and an SSH key backdoor to download and execute additional binaries or spread itself...
Qubitstrike Targets Jupyter Notebooks with Crypto Mining and Rootkit Campaign
A threat actor, presumably from Tunisia, has been linked to a new campaign targeting exposed Jupyter Notebooks in a two-fold attempt to illicitly mine cryptocurrency and breach cloud environments. Dubbed Qubitstrike by Cado, the intrusion set utilizes Telegram API to exfiltrate cloud service...
Risk Fact #4: Malware in your Cloud means Exploitation is underway
Qualys Blog Series – 2023 TotalCloud Security Insights by the Threat Research Unit The 2023 TotalCloud Security Insights report from the Qualys Threat Research Unit TRU provides research insights, best practices, and detailed recommendations organized by five separate Risk Facts. The insights wil...
Agile Approach to Mass Cloud Credential Harvesting and Crypto Mining Sprints Ahead
Developers are not the only people who have adopted the agile methodology for their development processes. From 2023-06-15 to 2023-07-11, Permiso Security's p0 Labs team identified and tracked an attacker developing and deploying eight 8 incremental iterations of their credential harvesting malwa...
Malicious Campaigns Exploit Weak Kubernetes Clusters for Crypto Mining
Exposed Kubernetes K8s clusters are being exploited by malicious actors to deploy cryptocurrency miners and other backdoors. Cloud security firm Aqua, in a report shared with The Hacker News, said a majority of the clusters belonged to small to medium-sized organizations, with a smaller subset ti...
Beating the Challenge of Cloud Detection and Response with Qualys TotalCloud Deep Learning AI
Lets go beyond the limitations of configuration management-only, non-cloud-native EDR tools for threat detection & response using deep learning AI. The global adoption of cloud technology has supercharged agile innovation in virtually every business sector. As a result, organizations are now...
Hackers Target Apache Tomcat Servers for Mirai Botnet and Crypto Mining
Misconfigured and poorly secured Apache Tomcat servers are being targeted as part of a new campaign designed to deliver the Mirai botnet malware and cryptocurrency miners. The findings come courtesy of Aqua, which detected more than 800 attacks against its Tomcat server honeypots over a two-year...
Attacks, Vulnerabilities and Actors 19 June to 25 June 2023
For a detailed threat digest, download the pdf file here Summary HiveForce Labs recently made several significant discoveries related to cybersecurity threats. Over the past week, the fact that there were a total of twelve attacks executed, taking advantage of seventeen different vulnerabilities ...
New Cryptocurrency Mining Campaign Targets Linux Systems and IoT Devices
Internet-facing Linux systems and Internet of Things IoT devices are being targeted as part of a new campaign designed to illicitly mine cryptocurrency. "The threat actors behind the attack use a backdoor that deploys a wide array of tools and components such as rootkits and an IRC bot to steal...
GUI-Vil Threat Group Exploits AWS for Crypto Mining
Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary GUI-Vil p0-LUCR-1, an Indonesian threat group, conducts unauthorized cryptocurrency mining using personalized infiltration tactics. They exploit AWS, leveraging compromised credentials and vulnerabilitie...
Indonesian Cybercriminals Exploit AWS for Profitable Crypto Mining Operations
A financially motivated threat actor of Indonesian origin has been observed leveraging Amazon Web Services AWS Elastic Compute Cloud EC2 instances to carry out illicit crypto mining operations. Cloud security company's Permiso P0 Labs, which first detected the group in November 2021, has assigned...
Indonesian Cybercriminals Exploit AWS for Profitable Crypto Mining Operations
A financially motivated threat actor of Indonesian origin has been observed leveraging Amazon Web Services AWS Elastic Compute Cloud EC2 instances to carry out illicit crypto mining operations. Cloud security company's Permiso P0 Labs, which first detected the group in November 2021, has assigned...
LimeRAT Malware Analysis: Extracting the Config
Remote Access Trojans RATs have taken the third leading position in ANY. RUN's Q1 2023 report on the most prevalent malware types, making it highly probable that your organization may face this threat. Though LimeRAT might not be the most well-known RAT family, its versatility is what sets it...
Kubernetes RBAC Exploited in Large-Scale Campaign for Cryptocurrency Mining
A large-scale attack campaign discovered in the wild has been exploiting Kubernetes K8s Role-Based Access Control RBAC to create backdoors and run cryptocurrency miners. "The attackers also deployed DaemonSets to take over and hijack resources of the K8s clusters they attack," cloud security firm...
Threat Roundup for March 10 to March 17
Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between March 10 and March 17. As with previous roundups, this post isn't meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, this post will summarize the threats we've observed by highlighting key behavioral...
New Cryptojacking Operation Targeting Kubernetes Clusters for Dero Mining
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered the first-ever illicit cryptocurrency mining campaign used to mint Dero since the start of February 2023. "The novel Dero cryptojacking operation concentrates on locating Kubernetes clusters with anonymous access enabled on a Kubernetes API and listening ...
Hackers Exploit Containerized Environments to Steal Proprietary Data and Software
A sophisticated attack campaign dubbed SCARLETEEL is targeting containerized environments to perpetrate theft of proprietary data and software. "The attacker exploited a containerized workload and then leveraged it to perform privilege escalation into an AWS account in order to steal proprietary...
