Storm-1977 Hits Education Clouds with AzureChecker, Deploys 200+ Crypto Mining Containers

Microsoft has revealed that a threat actor it tracks as Storm-1977 has conducted password spraying attacks against cloud tenants in the education sector over the past year. "The attack involves the use of AzureChecker.exe, a Command Line Interface CLI tool that is being used by a wide range of...

Docker Malware Exploits Teneo Web3 Node to Earn Crypto via Fake Heartbeat Signals

Cybersecurity researchers have detailed a malware campaign that's targeting Docker environments with a previously undocumented technique to mine cryptocurrency. The activity cluster, per Darktrace and Cado Security, represents a shift from other cryptojacking campaigns that directly deploy miners...

ScaloWork: Useful Proof-Of-Work with Distributed Pool Mining

Bitcoin blockchain uses hash-based Proof-of-Work PoW that prevents unwanted participants from hogging the network resources. Anyone entering the mining game has to prove that they have expended a specific amount of computational power. However, the most popular Bitcoin blockchain consumes 175.87...

Multi-Class Item Mining under Local Differential Privacy

Item mining, a fundamental task for collecting statistical data from users, has raised increasing privacy concerns. To address these concerns, local differential privacy LDP was proposed as a privacy-preserving technique. Existing LDP item mining mechanisms primarily concentrate on global...

Security Bulletin: Multiple security vulnerabilities are addressed with IBM Process Mining 2.0

Summary In addition to many updates of operating system level packages, the following security vulnerabilities are addressed with IBM Process Mining 2.0 Vulnerability Details CVEID:CVE-2024-52317 DESCRIPTION: Apache Tomcat could provide weaker than expected security, caused by an incorrect...

Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in Waitress affects IBM Process Mining (CVE-2024-49768)

Summary There is a vulnerability in Waitress that could allow a remote attacker to bypass a protection mechanism and cause a symlink attack. The code is used by IBM Process Mining. This bulletin identifies the security fixes to apply to address the vulnerability. Vulnerability Details...

Security Bulletin: Multiple security vulnerabilities are addressed with IBM Process Mining 2.0.1

Summary In addition to many updates of operating system level packages, the following security vulnerabilities are addressed with IBM Process Mining 2.0.1 Vulnerability Details CVEID:CVE-2024-6827 DESCRIPTION: Gunicorn version 21.2.0 does not properly validate the value of the 'Transfer-Encoding'...

Over 1,500 PostgreSQL Servers Compromised in Fileless Cryptocurrency Mining Campaign

Exposed PostgreSQL instances are the target of an ongoing campaign designed to gain unauthorized access and deploy cryptocurrency miners. Cloud security firm Wiz said the activity is a variant of an intrusion set that was first flagged by Aqua Security in August 2024 that involved the use of a...

Undercover miner: how YouTubers get pressed into distributing SilentCryptoMiner as a restriction bypass tool

In recent months, we've seen an increase in the use of Windows Packet Divert drivers to intercept and modify network traffic in Windows systems. This technology is used in various utilities, including ones for bypassing blocks and restrictions of access to resources worldwide. Over the past six...

QingScan 安全漏洞

QingScan is a batch vulnerability mining tool by a Chinese daxia individual developer. It is used to glue various good scanners. QingScan v1.8.0 version before the existence of a security vulnerability , the vulnerability stems from /webscan/sqlmap/index.html contains a reflective cross-site...

Security Bulletin: Multiple security vulnerabilities are addressed with IBM Process Mining Interim Fix for Jan 2025

Summary In addition to many updates of operating system level packages, the following security vulnerabilities are addressed with IBM Process Mining 2.0.0 IF001 Vulnerability Details CVEID:CVE-2024-43796 DESCRIPTION: expressjs express is vulnerable to cross-site scripting, caused by improper...

TRIPLESTRENGTH Hits Cloud for Cryptojacking, On-Premises Systems for Ransomware

Google on Wednesday shed light on a financially motivated threat actor named TRIPLESTRENGTH for its opportunistic targeting of cloud environments for cryptojacking and on-premise ransomware attacks. "This actor engaged in a variety of threat activity, including cryptocurrency mining operations on...

Vulnerabilities fixed in Oracle Database products

Oracle has fixed vulnerabilities in several database products and subsystems, including the Core Database, Grail, Application Express, GoldenGate and REST data. The vulnerabilities are in several components of the Oracle Database, including the Data Mining component and the Java VM. These...

Bitcoin’s Prospects in 2025: Exploring Opportunities and Mitigate Risks

Explore Bitcoin's 2025 prospects, market trends, mining, and secure methods like cloud platforms. Learn strategies to manage risks…...

Rspack npm Packages Compromised with Crypto Mining Malware in Supply Chain Attack

The developers of Rspack have revealed that two of their npm packages, @rspack/core and @rspack/cli, were compromised in a software supply chain attack that allowed a malicious actor to publish malicious versions to the official package registry with cryptocurrency mining malware. Following the...

A number of releases of ultralytics contained malicious crypto miner software.

Ultralytics has identified a supply chain attackaffecting affecting multiple versions of the ultralytics package.The compromised versions contained unauthorized code thatdownloaded and executed cryptocurrency mining softwarewhen instantiating YOLO models.This code was injected into the PyPI relea...

Security Bulletin: Multiple security vulnerabilities are addressed with IBM Process Mining Interim Fix for Nov 2024

Summary In addition to many updates of operating system level packages, the following security vulnerabilities are addressed with IBM Process Mining 1.15.0 IF004 Vulnerability Details CVEID:CVE-2024-38821 DESCRIPTION: VMware Tanzu Spring Security could allow a remote attacker to bypass security...

New SteelFox Trojan mimics software activators, stealing sensitive data and mining cryptocurrency

Introduction In August 2024, our team identified a new crimeware bundle, which we named "SteelFox". Delivered via sophisticated execution chains including shellcoding, this threat abuses Windows services and drivers. It spreads via forums posts, torrent trackers and blogs, imitating popular...

Notorious Hacker Group TeamTNT Launches New Cloud Attacks for Crypto Mining

The infamous cryptojacking group known as TeamTNT appears to be readying for a new large-scale campaign targeting cloud-native environments for mining cryptocurrencies and renting out breached servers to third-parties. "The group is currently targeting exposed Docker daemons to deploy Sliver...

Cybercriminals Exploiting Docker API Servers for SRBMiner Crypto Mining Attacks

Bad actors have been observed targeting Docker remote API servers to deploy the SRBMiner crypto miner on compromised instances, according to new findings from Trend Micro. "In this attack, the threat actor used the gRPC protocol over h2c to evade security solutions and execute their crypto mining...