This Week in Security News: Trends and Tea Parties

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, the U.S. official in charge of election security was replaced, Trend Micro hosted a tea party in rural Taiwan, and a new cryptocurrency mino...

nanopool Claymore Dual Miner Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

nanopool Claymore Dual Miner is a software for bitcoin mining. A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the API in nanopool Claymore Dual Miner 7.3 and earlier versions. A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability to execute code...

LA Times website hacked to mine Monero cryptocurrency

By Waqas Another day, another Monero cryptocurrency miner - This time, the target This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: LA Times website hacked to mine Monero cryptocurrency...

U.K. and U.S. Government Websites Among Thousands Infected by Cryptocurrency Miner

More than 4,200 websites, including many run the U.K. and U.S. governments, were infected on Feb. 11 by a Monero cryptocurrency miner delivered through Browsealoud, a hosted accessibility service that can read website content aloud for people with visual impairments. Browsealoud developer Texthel...

Coinhive JavaScript Miner Detection

This script reports if a web page of the remote host contains code from the Coinhive JavaScript Miner. 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:...

CVE-2018-1000049

Nanopool Claymore Dual Miner version 7.3 and earlier contains a remote code execution vulnerability by abusing the miner API. The flaw can be exploited only if the software is executed with read/write mode enabled...

CVE-2018-1000049

Nanopool Claymore Dual Miner version 7.3 and earlier contains a remote code execution vulnerability by abusing the miner API. The flaw can be exploited only if the software is executed with read/write mode enabled...

Remote code execution

Nanopool Claymore Dual Miner version 7.3 and earlier contains a remote code execution vulnerability by abusing the miner API. The flaw can be exploited only if the software is executed with read/write mode enabled...

CVE-2018-1000049

Nanopool Claymore Dual Miner version 7.3 and earlier contains a remote code execution vulnerability by abusing the miner API. The flaw can be exploited only if the software is executed with read/write mode enabled...

CVE-2018-1000049

CVE-2018-1000049 affects Nanopool Claymore Dual Miner 7.3 and earlier, via the miner’s remote management API (EthMan) that runs on a configurable port (notably 5555). The vulnerability allows remote code execution when read/write access is enabled, exposing endpoints such as miner_restart, miner_...

Nanopool Claymore Dual Miner APIs RCE

This module takes advantage of miner remote manager APIs to exploit an RCE vulnerability. Module Options msf use exploit/multi/misc/claymore/dualminerremotemanagerrce msf undefineddualminerremotemanagerrce show actions ...actions... msf undefineddualminerremotemanagerrce set ACTION msf...

MacUpdate Hacked to Distribute Mac Cryptocurrency Miner

By Waqas Another day, another cryptocurrency miner targeting users - This time, This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: MacUpdate Hacked to Distribute Mac Cryptocurrency Miner...

Claymore Dual GPU Miner Format String dos attack

Claymore’s Dual GPU Miner 10.5 and below is vulnerable to a format strings vulnerability. This allows an unauthenticated attacker to read memory addresses, or immediately terminate the mining process causing a denial of service. Module Options msf use auxiliary/dos/tcp/claymore/dos msf undefinedd...

Claymore Dual Miner Denial of Service Vulnerability

Claymore Dual Miner is a GPU monitoring software for mining virtual currency computing. A security vulnerability exists in the remote management interface in Claymore Dual Miner 10.5 and earlier versions. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to read memory or cause a denial of servi...

Claymore Dual GPU Miner 10.5 - Format String

Claymore Dual GPU Miner 10.5 - Format String Claymore’s Dual GPU Miner 10.5 and below is vulnerable to a format strings vulnerability. This allows an unauthenticated attacker to read memory addresses, or immediately terminate the mining process causing a denial of service. After reading about the...

Claymore Dual GPU Miner 10.5 - Format String

Claymore’s Dual GPU Miner 10.5 and below is vulnerable to a format strings vulnerability. This allows an unauthenticated attacker to read memory addresses, or immediately terminate the mining process causing a denial of service. After reading about the recent vulnerabilities with previous version...

Claymore Dual GPU Miner 10.5 Format String Vulnerability

Exploit for multiple platform in category remote exploits Claymore Dual Gpu Miner = 10.5 Format Strings Vulnerability ======================================================================= product: Claymore's Dual Miner vulnerable version: = 10.5 fixed version: 10.6 CVE number: - CVE-2018a6317...

Claymore Dual GPU Miner 10.5 Format String

Claymore Dual Gpu Miner = 10.5 Format Strings Vulnerability ======================================================================= product: Claymore's Dual Miner vulnerable version: = 10.5 fixed version: 10.6 CVE number: - CVE-2018a6317 impact: critical homepage:...

Format string

The remote management interface in Claymore Dual Miner 10.5 and earlier is vulnerable to an unauthenticated format string vulnerability, allowing remote attackers to read memory or cause a denial of service...

CVE-2018-6317

The remote management interface in Claymore Dual Miner 10.5 and earlier is vulnerable to an unauthenticated format string vulnerability, allowing remote attackers to read memory or cause a denial of service...