GHSA-M36M-X4C5-RJXJ Silently Runs Cryptocoin Miner in hooka-tools

Affected versions of hooka-tools were compromised and modified to silently run a cryptocoin miner in the background. All affected versions have been unpublished from the npm registry. Recommendation While this module has been unpublished, some versions may exist in mirrors or caches. Do not insta...

Researchers Sound Alarm Over Malicious AWS Community AMIs

Researchers are sounding the alarm over what they say is a growing threat vector tied to Amazon Web Services and its marketplace of pre-configured virtual servers. The danger, according to researchers with Mitiga, is that threat actors can easily build malware-laced Community Amazon Machine Image...

EWBF Cuda Zcash Miner Security Breach

EWBF Cuda Zcash Miner is a software for mining bitcoins. miner statistics HTTP API is one of the statistics interfaces. A security vulnerability exists in the miner statistics HTTP API in EWBF Cuda Zcash Miner version 0.3.4b. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to deny users access to...

ParamSpider - Mining Parameters From Dark Corners Of Web Archives

ParamSpider : Parameter miner for humans. Key Features : Finds parameters from web archives of the entered domain. Finds parameters from subdomains as well. Gives support to exclude urls with specific extensions. Saves the output result in a nice and clean manner. It mines the parameters from web...

Self-Propagating Lucifer Malware Targets Windows Systems

Security experts have identified a self-propagating malware, dubbed Lucifer, that targets Windows systems with cryptojacking and distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks. The never-before-seen malware initially tries to infect PCs by bombarding them with exploits in hopes of taking advantage of...

Misconfigured Kubeflow workloads are a security risk

Azure Security Center ASC monitors and defends thousands of Kubernetes clusters running on top of AKS. Azure Security Center regularly searches for and research for new attack vectors against Kubernetes workloads. We recently published a blog post about a large scale campaign against Kubernetes...

EWBF Cuda Zcash Miner Security Breach

EWBF Cuda Zcash Miner is a software for mining bitcoins. miner statistics HTTP API is one of the statistics interfaces.A security vulnerability exists in the miner statistics HTTP API in EWBF Cuda Zcash Miner version 0.3.4b. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to deny users access to...

This Week in Security News: 7 Tips for Security Pros Patching in a Pandemic and Coinminer, DDoS Bot Attack Docker Daemon Ports

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, read about a malicious cryptocurrency miner and Distributed Denial of Service DDoS bot that targets open Docker daemon ports. Also, learn...

Logic Flaw Vulnerability in CPP-Ethereum JSON-RPC

CPP-Ethereum is a C++ client for Ethereum Application Programming Platform.JSON-RPC is one of the remote invocation services using JSON as the protocol. A security vulnerability exists in the minerstart API for JSON-RPC in CPP-Ethereum commit version 4e1015743b95821849d001618a7ce82c7c073768. An...

Breaking down a two-year run of Vivin’s cryptominers

News Summary There is another large-scale cryptomining attack from an actor we are tracking as "Vivin" that has been active since at least November 2017. "Vivin" has consistently evolved over the past few years, despite having poor operational security and exposing key details of their campaign. ...

This Week in Security News: December Patch Tuesday Updates and Retail Cyberattacks Set to Soar 20 Percent During 2019 Holiday Season

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, learn about the threat campaign Waterbear and how it uses API hooking to evade security product detection. Also, read about December Patch...

NiceHash Miner Information Disclosure Vulnerability

NiceHash Miner is a mining software for Bitcoin. A security vulnerability exists in NiceHash Miner versions prior to 2.0.3.0. An attacker could exploit the vulnerability to enumerate user names...

Unspecified Vulnerability in NiceHash Miner

NiceHash Miner is a mining software for Bitcoin. A security vulnerability exists in NiceHash Miner versions prior to 2.0.3.0. The vulnerability can be exploited by an attacker to obtain user information with a valid email address...

NiceHash Miner Input Validation Error Vulnerability

NiceHash Miner is a mining software for Bitcoin. An input validation error vulnerability exists in NiceHash Miner versions prior to 2.0.3.0. The vulnerability stems from a network system or product that does not properly validate incoming data. No details of the vulnerability are provided at this...

Microsoft works with researchers to detect and protect against new RDP exploits

On November 2, 2019, security researcher Kevin Beaumont reported that his BlueKeep honeypot experienced crashes and was likely being exploited. Microsoft security researchers collaborated with Beaumont as well as another researcher, Marcus Hutchins, to investigate and analyze the crashes and...

CVE-2019-6121

An issue was discovered in NiceHash Miner before 2.0.3.0. Missing Authorization allows an adversary to can gain access to a miner's information about such as his recent payments, unclaimed Balance, Old Balance at the time of December 2017 breach , Projected payout, Mining stats like profitability...

CVE-2019-6120

An issue was discovered in NiceHash Miner before 2.0.3.0. A missing rate limit while adding a wallet via Email address allows remote attackers to submit a large number of email addresses to identify valid ones. By exploiting this vulnerability with CVE-2019-6122 Username Enumeration an adversary...

CVE-2019-6122

A Username Enumeration via Error Message issue was discovered in NiceHash Miner before 2.0.3.0 because an "EMAIL DOES NOT EXIST" error message occurs whenever a submitted email address is incorrect, but there is a different error message for invalid credentials with a correct email address...

CVE-2019-6121

An issue was discovered in NiceHash Miner before 2.0.3.0. Missing Authorization allows an adversary to can gain access to a miner's information about such as his recent payments, unclaimed Balance, Old Balance at the time of December 2017 breach , Projected payout, Mining stats like profitability...

CVE-2019-6122

A Username Enumeration via Error Message issue was discovered in NiceHash Miner before 2.0.3.0 because an "EMAIL DOES NOT EXIST" error message occurs whenever a submitted email address is incorrect, but there is a different error message for invalid credentials with a correct email address...