Years Long Linux Cryptominer Spotted Using Legit Sites to Spread Malware

Cryptominer campaign runs for years using legit sites to spread malware, targeting Linux systems through known bugs and avoiding detection...

Valkyrie: a Response Framework to Augment Runtime Detection of Time-Progressive Attacks

A popular approach to detect cyberattacks is to monitor systems in real-time to identify malicious activities as they occur. While these solutions aim to detect threats early, minimizing damage, they suffer from a significant challenge due to the presence of false positives. False positives have ...

CPU_HU: Fileless cryptominer targeting exposed PostgreSQL with over 1.5K victims

Cloud environments at risk: Attackers target weak PostgreSQL instances with fileless cryptominer payloads...

StaryDobry ruins New Year’s Eve, delivering miner instead of presents

Introduction On December 31, cybercriminals launched a mass infection campaign, aiming to exploit reduced vigilance and increased torrent traffic during the holiday season. Our telemetry detected the attack, which lasted for a month and affected individuals and businesses by distributing the XMRi...

Malicious Embedded Code

Overview ultralytics is an Ultralytics YOLOv8 for SOTA object detection, multi-object tracking, instance segmentation, pose estimation and image classification. Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Malicious Embedded Code. These versions have been compromised to install an xmrig...

Using gRPC and HTTP/2 for Cryptominer Deployment: An Unconventional Approach

In this blog entry, we discuss how malicious actors are exploiting Docker remote API servers via gRPC/h2c to deploy the cryptominer SRBMiner to facilitate their mining of XRP on Docker hosts...

Malicious code in bo3to (PyPI)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: kam193 131072b5bfcd4ce6218aaec66423046b83d0e49904d5992b26192daa201421bd During installation, a cryptominer is secretly installed and started. --- Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers...

Malicious code in botoceor (PyPI)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: kam193 8bf39054053dfe99fc83c836bb407659d11241cc09f2572a72524d980b9c5914 During installation, a cryptominer is secretly installed and started. --- Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers...

Malicious code in transformars (PyPI)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: kam193 21a990a504294c9083adc25cefdd9ed927574220d78968f43fe1469b344d1229 --- Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers. Campaign: 2024-07-transformars-research Reasons based on the campaign: ...

MAL-2024-12365 Malicious code in transformars (PyPI)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: kam193 21a990a504294c9083adc25cefdd9ed927574220d78968f43fe1469b344d1229 --- Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers. Campaign: 2024-07-transformars-research Reasons based on the campaign: ...

Examining Water Sigbin's Infection Routine Leading to an XMRig Cryptominer

We analyze the multi-stage loading technique used by Water Sigbin to deliver the PureCrypter loader and XMRIG crypto miner...

P2Pinfect Botnet Now Targets Servers with Ransomware, Cryptominer

The P2Pinfect botnet, once dormant, is now attacking servers with ransomware and cryptomining malware. Patch your systems to avoid data encryption and financial loss...

RedTail Cryptominer Threat Actors Adopt PAN-OS CVE-2024-3400 Exploit

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New Sysrv Botnet Variant Makes Use of Google Subdomain to Spread XMRig Miner

Sysrv is a well-documented botnet first identified in 2020, with the main payload being a worm written in Golang. It drops a cryptominer onto infected hosts before attempting to propagate itself using various methods, including network vulnerabilities. Over the past few years, the botnet has...

Attackers Quick to Weaponize CVE-2023-22527 for Malware Delivery

On January 16, 2024, Atlassian disclosed a critical vulnerability affecting Confluence Data Center and Confluence Server, tracked as CVE-2023-22527. The vulnerability is an unauthenticated OGNL injection bug, allowing unauthenticated attackers to execute Java expressions, invoke methods, navigate...

Imperva uncovers new Indicators of Compromise for FBI and CISA-flagged AndroxGh0st botnet

On January 16, a joint alert from FBI and CISA warned about a concerning development: the emergence of a botnet driven by AndroxGh0st malware targeting vulnerable applications and web servers. AndroxGh0st is a Python-based malware, first seen in late 2022, designed to target Laravel .env files an...

Mirai-based NoaBot Botnet Targeting Linux Systems with Cryptominer

By Deeba Ahmed Another day, another malware threat against Linux systems! This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Mirai-based NoaBot Botnet Targeting Linux Systems with Cryptominer...

Microsoft Azure Exploited to Create Undetectable Cryptominer

By Deeba Ahmed esearchers have labeled this as the "ultimate cryptominer." This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Microsoft Azure Exploited to Create Undetectable Cryptominer...

PyLoose: Python-based fileless malware targets cloud workloads to deliver cryptominer

PyLoose is a newly discovered Python-based fileless malware targeting cloud workloads. Get a breakdown of how the attack unfolds and the steps to mitigate it...

KmsdBot Cryptominer Targets the Gaming Industry

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary KmsdBot is Golang-based malware that leverages the Secure Shell SSH cryptographic protocol to obtain access to targeted systems to mine cryptocurrencies and carry out distributed denial-of-service DDoS...