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Microsoft: Big Cryptomining Attacks Hit Kubeflow
Microsoft has spotted a new, widespread, ongoing attack targeting Kubernetes clusters running Kubeflow instances, in order to plant malicious TensorFlow pods that are used to mine for cryptocurrency. The Kubeflow open-source project is a popular framework for running machine learning ML tasks in...
Crypto-Mining Attacks Targeting Kubernetes Clusters via Kubeflow Instances
Cybersecurity researchers on Tuesday disclosed a new large-scale campaign targeting Kubeflow deployments to run malicious cryptocurrency mining containers. The campaign involved deploying TensorFlow pods on Kubernetes clusters, with the pods running legitimate TensorFlow images from the official...
Feds Secretly Ran a Fake Encrypted Chat App and Busted Over 800 Criminals
In an unprecedented sting operation, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI and Australian Federal Police AFP ran an encrypted chat service called ANoM for nearly three years to intercept 27 million messages exchanged between criminal gang members globally. Dubbed Operation Ironside AFP,...
U.S. Recovers $2.3 Million Ransom Paid to Colonial Pipeline Hackers
In a major blow, the U.S. Department of Justice on Monday said it has recovered 63.7 bitcoins currently valued at $2.3 million paid by Colonial Pipeline to the DarkSide ransomware extortionists on May 8, pursuant to a seizure warrant that was authorized by the Northern District of California. The...
Justice Dept. Claws Back $2.3M Paid by Colonial Pipeline to Ransomware Gang
The U.S. Department of Justice said today it has recovered $2.3 million worth of Bitcoin that Colonial Pipeline paid to ransomware extortionists last month. The funds had been sent to DarkSide, a ransomware-as-a-service syndicate that disbanded after a May 14 farewell message to affiliates saying...
Cybercriminals Hold $115,000-Prize Contest to Find New Cryptocurrency Hacks
A top Russian-language underground forum has been running a "contest" for the past month, calling on its community to submit "unorthodox" ways to conduct cryptocurrency attacks. The forum's administrator, in an announcement made on April 20, 2021, invited members to submit papers that assess the...
Researchers Link CryptoCore Attacks On Cryptocurrency Exchanges to North Korea
State-sponsored hackers affiliated with North Korea have been behind a slew of attacks on cryptocurrency exchanges over the past three years, new evidence has revealed. Attributing the attack with "medium-high" likelihood to the Lazarus Group aka APT38 or Hidden Cobra, researchers from Israeli...
Phorpiex morphs: How a longstanding botnet persists and thrives in the current threat environment
Phorpiex, an enduring botnet known for extortion campaigns and for using old-fashioned worms that spread via removable USB drives and instant messaging apps, began diversifying its infrastructure in recent years to become more resilient and to deliver more dangerous payloads. Today, the Phorphiex...
Phorpiex morphs: How a longstanding botnet persists and thrives in the current threat environment
Phorpiex, an enduring botnet known for extortion campaigns and for using old-fashioned worms that spread via removable USB drives and instant messaging apps, began diversifying its infrastructure in recent years to become more resilient and to deliver more dangerous payloads. Today, the Phorphiex...
U.S. Pipeline Ransomware Attackers Go Dark After Servers and Bitcoin Are Seized
Just as Colonial Pipeline restored all of its systems to operational status in the wake of a crippling ransomware incident a week ago, DarkSide, the cybercrime syndicate behind the attack, claimed it lost control of its infrastructure, citing a law enforcement seizure. All the dark web sites...
DarkSide Ransomware Gang Quits After Servers, Bitcoin Stash Seized
The DarkSide ransomware affiliate program responsible for the six-day outage at Colonial Pipeline this week that led to fuel shortages and price spikes across the country is running for the hills. The crime gang announced it was closing up shop after its servers were seized and someone drained th...
Colonial Pipeline Shells Out $5M in Extortion Payout, Report
Colonial Pipeline Co., operator of the largest U.S. fuel pipeline, reportedly paid $5 million to criminals behind a ransomware attack that has sent fuel prices spiking up and down the East Coast. Sources familiar with the payout told Bloomberg that representatives of Colonial Pipeline paid the...
Threat Source Newsletter (May 13, 2021)
Newsletter compiled by Jon Munshaw. Good afternoon, Talos readers. In case you missed the Friday news drop last week, we have an update on the Lemon Duck cryptocurrency miner. It's not as eye-catching as the ransomware attacks that make the news, but Lemon Duck's... This is only the beginning!...
Over 25% Of Tor Exit Relays Spied On Users' Dark Web Activities
An unknown threat actor managed to control more than 27% of the entire Tor network exit capacity in early February 2021, a new study on the dark web infrastructure revealed. "The entity attacking Tor users is actively exploiting tor users since over a year and expanded the scale of their attacks ...
$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...
This Week in Security News May 7, 2021
New Panda Stealer Targets Cryptocurrency Wallets and Apple Releases Urgent Security Patches for Zero-Day Bugs...
BTCPay Server Path Traversal Vulnerability
BTCPay Server is a self-hosted open source cryptocurrency payment processor. It is secure, private, uncensored and free. A path traversal vulnerability exists in BTCPay Server version 1.0.7.0 and prior versions, which arises from a failure of a networked system or product to properly filter speci...
New Crypto-Stealer ‘Panda’ Spreads via Discord
Yet another new information stealer – Panda Stealer – is being spread through a worldwide spam campaign. On Tuesday, Trend Micro researchers said that they first spotted the new stealer in April. The most recent wave of the spam campaign has had the biggest impact in Australia, Germany, Japan and...
New Panda Stealer Targets Cryptocurrency Wallets
In early April, we observed a new information stealer called Panda Stealer being delivered via spam emails. Based on Trend Micro's telemetry, United States, Australia, Japan, and Germany were among the most affected countries during a recent spam wave...