CVE-2022-24659

Goldshell ASIC Miners v2.2.1 and below was discovered to contain a path traversal vulnerability which allows unauthenticated attackers to retrieve arbitrary files from the device...

This Cloud Botnet Has Hijacked 30,000 Systems to Mine Cryptocurrencies

The 8220 cryptomining group has expanded in size to encompass as many as 30,000 infected hosts, up from 2,000 hosts globally in mid-2021. "8220 Gang is one of the many low-skill crimeware gangs we continually observe infecting cloud hosts and operating a botnet and cryptocurrency miners through...

Microsoft Warns of Cryptomining Malware Campaign Targeting Linux Servers

A cloud threat actor group tracked as 8220 has updated its malware toolset to breach Linux servers with the goal of installing crypto miners as part of a long-running campaign. "The updates include the deployment of new versions of a crypto miner and an IRC bot," Microsoft Security Intelligence...

Executor and miner collusion and gas price

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact The MATCHEXECUTOR can choose tx.gasprice and take the gas cost from a buyer. An executor can make a overly costly tx mined by a friendly miner and take extra profits. Proof of Concept and similar functions... Recommended Mitigation Steps There's no...

Low Value Definition On The Slippage

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact Trades can happen at a bad price and lead to receiving fewer tokens than at a fair market price. The attacker's profit is the protocol's loss. Proof of Concept MyStrategy contract has low slippage checks which can lead to being vulnerable to sandwich...

Rise in XorDdos: A deeper look at the stealthy DDoS malware targeting Linux devices

In the last six months, we observed a 254% increase in activity from a Linux trojan called XorDdos. First discovered in 2014 by the research group MalwareMustDie, XorDdos was named after its denial-of-service-related activities on Linux endpoints and servers as well as its usage of XOR-based...

Norton’s Antivirus Product Now Includes an Ethereum Miner

Norton 360 can now mine Ethereum. Its opt-in, and the company keeps 15%. Its hard to uninstall this option...

Exploit for Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Siemens 6Bk1602-0Aa12-0Tp0_Firmware

CVE-2021-44228 DFIR-Notes Driving home I got my first message...

MEV miner can mint larger than expected UDT total supply

Handle elprofesor Vulnerability details Impact UnlockProtocol attempts to calculate gas reimbursement using tx.gasprice, typically users who falsify tx.gasprice would lose gas to miners and therefore not obtain any advantage over the protocol itself. This does present capabilities for miners to...

FreakOut Botnet Turns DVRs Into Monero Cryptominers

Threat group FreakOut’s Necro botnet has developed a new trick: infecting Visual Tools DVRs with a Monero miner. Juniper Threat Labs researchers have issued a report detailing new activities from FreakOut, also known as Necro Python and Python.IRCBot. In late September, the team noticed that the...

TeamTNT’s New Tools Target Multiple OSes

The TeamTNT malware pushers have a slew of new toys with which to wreak havoc – multiple shell/batch scripts, open-source tools, a cryptocurrency miner, an IRC and more – that have inflicted more than 5,000 infections globally as antivirus AV tools struggle to catch up with the newest malware...

Latest Atlassian Confluence Flaw Exploited to Breach Jenkins Project Server

The maintainers of Jenkins—a popular open-source automation server software—have disclosed a security breach after unidentified threat actors gained access to one of their servers by exploiting a recently disclosed vulnerability in Atlassian Confluence service to install a cryptocurrency miner. T...

Possible miner incentive for chain reorgs if ETHBlockDelay is too small

Handle tensors Vulnerability details Impact If ETHBlockDelay is too small and the incentive for miners is large enough, it would profitable for miners to attempt to double spend by depositing assets, waiting for confirmation on the cosmos-SDK and then reorging the blockchain. Although an attack...

Traffic Exchange Networks Distributing Malware Disguised as Cracked Software

An ongoing campaign has been found to leverage a network of websites acting as a "dropper as a service" to deliver a bundle of malware payloads to victims looking for "cracked" versions of popular business and consumer applications. "These malware included an assortment of click fraud bots, other...

IBM: Unauthorized Kubernetes to RCE (root) and found TEAMTNT Crypto Miner on it

This report revealed a vulnerable server running an unauthorized Kubernetes which allowed unkn0wn to gain remote code execution. This issue was reported to IBM and has been remediated...

RUSTSEC-2021-0107 Miner fails to get block template when a cell used as a cell dep has been destroyed.

Impact The RPC getblocktemplate fails when a cell has been used as a cell dep and an input in the different transactions. Say cell C is used as a dep group in the transaction A, and is destroyed in the transaction B. The node adds transaction A first, then B into the transaction pool. They are bo...

Miner fails to get block template when a cell used as a cell dep has been destroyed.

Impact The RPC getblocktemplate fails when a cell has been used as a cell dep and an input in the different transactions. Say cell C is used as a dep group in the transaction A, and is destroyed in the transaction B. The node adds transaction A first, then B into the transaction pool. They are bo...

Deposits can be denied by abusing maxContractBalance

Handle cmichel Vulnerability details Vulnerability Details The treasury implements a max contract balance check in the deposit function: require erc20.balanceOfaddressthis + amount This is not only restricted to whales, miners/users can do the same using same-block cross-transaction flashloans an...

Romanian Crypto Mining Infection

While examining my honeypot logs and digging through the newly downloaded binaries last week, I noticed a large compressed file. I figured it would be a crypto miner, typically a tar archive and gzip normally erroneously compressed. I moved the archive over to my test lab and started examining th...

NiceHash Miner Excavator 1.6.7c Cross Site Request Forgery Vulnerability

NiceHash Miner Excavator versions 1.6.7c and below suffer from a cross site request forgery vulnerability. The issue enables any external web site to send commands to the local miner instance, and to redirect the mined coins to an arbitrary mining address. NiceHash Miner Excavator API Cross-Site...