Malicious Docker Containers Earn Cryptomining Criminals $90K

UPDATE Seventeen malicious Docker containers earned cryptomining criminals $90,000 in 30 days in what could be a harbinger of things to come. The figure may seem tame compared to some of the larger paydays that cryptojackers have earned. But, researchers at Kromtech Security Center warn container...

Apple Bans Cryptocurrency Mining Apps From Its App Stores

Due to the surge in cryptocurrency prices, not only hackers but also legitimate websites and mobile apps are increasingly using cryptocurrency miners to monetize by levying the CPU power of your PC and phones to mine cryptocurrencies. However, Apple wants to protect your Mac and iPhone battery fr...

Apple Bans Cryptocurrency Mining Apps From Its App Stores

Due to the surge in cryptocurrency prices, not only hackers but also legitimate websites and mobile apps are increasingly using cryptocurrency miners to monetize by levying the CPU power of your PC and phones to mine cryptocurrencies. However, Apple wants to protect your Mac and iPhone battery fr...

Siaberry 1.2.2 - Command Injection Vulnerability

Exploit for hardware platform in category web applications Siaberry's Command Injection Vulnerability Today, I’d like to share several interesting vulnerabilities I discovered in Siaberry, a hardware device for earning cryptocurrency. Siaberry runs on Sia, a decentralized marketplace for buying a...

Don’t Be a Coinmining Zombie – Part 1: Getting Cryptojacked

When your computer or mobile device and now, even your IoT device is hijacked to secretly mine cryptocurrencies, it’s been cryptojacked and becomes a coinmining zombie. Its CPU, memory, disk, and power are enlisted in varying degrees in the service of the mining botnet, which labors on behalf of...

Hackers Stole Over $20 Million in Ethereum from Insecurely Configured Clients

Security researchers have been warning about cybercriminals who have made over 20 million dollars in just past few months by hijacking insecurely configured Ethereum nodes exposed on the Internet. Qihoo 360 Netlab in March tweeted about a group of cybercriminals who were scanning the Internet for...

Siaberry 1.2.2 - Command Injection

Siaberry's Command Injection Vulnerability Today, I’d like to share several interesting vulnerabilities I discovered in Siaberry, a hardware device for earning cryptocurrency. Siaberry runs on Sia, a decentralized marketplace for buying and selling data storage. The device is intended to give...

Operation Prowli Profits On Weak IoT Devices, Servers

A malicious campaign has compromised more than 40,000 machines globally, carrying out traffic-hijacking and cryptomining. Researchers at Guardicore Labs, who called the campaign Operation Prowli, said it targets a variety of platforms – including Drupal CMS websites, WordPress sites, backup serve...

Carbon Black Threat Report: Cryptocurrency Gold Rush on the Dark Web

Cryptocurrencies. A decade ago, names such as Bitcoin, Dash, Etherem, and Monero were merely buzzwords. Fast forward to today, and they’ve become as recognizable as the U.S. dollar and the Euro. In many realms, these digital currencies are ushering in a new era of investing – a modern gold rush,...

Prowli Malware Targeting Servers, Routers, and IoT Devices

After the discovery of massive VPNFilter malware botnet, security researchers have now uncovered another giant botnet that has already compromised more than 40,000 servers, modems and internet-connected devices belonging to a wide number of organizations across the world. Dubbed Operation Prowli ...

Prowli Malware Targeting Servers, Routers, and IoT Devices

After the discovery of massive VPNFilter malware botnet, security researchers have now uncovered another giant botnet that has already compromised more than 40,000 servers, modems and internet-connected devices belonging to a wide number of organizations across the world. Dubbed Operation Prowli,...

Regulating Bitcoin

Ross Anderson has a new paper on cryptocurrency exchanges. From his blog: Bitcoin Redux explains what's going wrong in the world of cryptocurrencies. The bitcoin exchanges are developing into a shadow banking system, which do not give their customers actual bitcoin but rather display a "balance"...

75% of the 'Left to Get Hacked' Redis Servers Found Infected

Despite the continual emergence of new cyber attacks because of misconfigured servers and applications, people continue to ignore security warnings. A massive malware campaign designed to target open Redis servers, about which researchers warned almost two months ago, has now grown and already...

Malware in the age of IoT

Now that technology providers are bringing connectivity to a whole host of different items and appliances, the full force of the Internet of Things is beginning to be felt by businesses and consumers alike. From simple items like home routers to more complex, machine-to-machine systems, the IoT i...

Nocturnal Stealer Lets Low-Skilled Cybercrooks Harvest Sensitive Info

The Nocturnal Stealer malware has crept into the Dark Web like a thief in the night, offering criminals a lucrative payday for a small price — and little effort. It’s a commodity malware, debuting on an underground forum in March for the low price of $25. It steals things, including 28 different...

New allowAnyone Bug Identified in Multiple ERC20 Smart Contracts (CVE-2018-11397, CVE-2018-11398)

Our vulnerability-scanning system at PeckShield has so far discovered several dangerous smart contract vulnerabilities batchOverflow1, proxyOverflow2, transferFlaw3, ownerAnyone4, multiOverflow5, burnOverflow6, ceoAnyone7. Some of them could be used by attackers to generate tokens out of nowhere ...

Fraudsters Claim To Hack Two Canadian Banks

UPDATE Two Canadian banks have reported that they may be targets of a hack, after bad actors claimed that they electronically accessed personal and account information of a combined 90,000 customers. The attackers have asked for a ransom of 1 Ripple XMR from each, which translates to around $1...

Cryptocurrency Mining: Abuse of system resources

Recent advances including digital currencies and the associated public transaction record blockchain have paved the way for an array of new financial activities. Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin are beginning to be accepted as payment by major retailers, creating more concrete use cases and...

Bitcoin Gold loses over $18 million after hack attack

By Waqas Hackers are conducting Double Spend attack on cryptocurrency exchanges and the This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Bitcoin Gold loses over $18 million after hack attack...

Attackers Cashing In On Cryptocurrency With Increased Scams

As the popularity around cryptocurrency has continued to boom in 2018, it has also tempting target for cash-hungry scammers to launch “cryptocurrency giveaway scams.” Researchers at Proofpoint this week said they’ve observed a sharp rise in these scams, which target users of Ethereum and Bitcoin...