Over 1,000 Exposed ComfyUI Instances Targeted in Cryptomining Botnet Campaign

An active campaign has been observed targeting internet-exposed instances running ComfyUI, a popular stable diffusion platform, to enlist them into a cryptocurrency mining and proxy botnet. "A purpose-built Python scanner continuously sweeps major cloud IP ranges for vulnerable targets,...

Security Bulletin: Multiple security vulnerabilities are addressed with IBM Process Mining 2.1.1

Summary In addition to many updates of operating system level packages, the following security vulnerabilities are addressed with IBM Process Mining 2.1.1 Vulnerability Details CVEID:CVE-2026-22732 DESCRIPTION: When applications specify HTTP response headers for servlet applications using Spring...

Kardashev Scale Quantum Computing for Bitcoin Mining

Bitcoin already faces a quantum threat through Shor attacks on elliptic-curve signatures. This paper isolates the other component that public discussion often conflates with it: mining. Grover's algorithm halves the exponent of brute-force search, promising a quadratic edge to any quantum miner o...

Hackers Use Fake Resumes to Steal Enterprise Credentials and Deploy Crypto Miner

An ongoing phishing campaign is targeting French-speaking corporate environments with fake resumes that lead to the deployment of cryptocurrency miners and information stealers. "The campaign uses highly obfuscated VBScript files disguised as resume/CV documents, delivered through phishing emails...

Mining the YARA Ecosystem: From Ad-Hoc Sharing to Data-Driven Threat Intelligence

YARA has established itself as the de facto standard for "Detection as Code," enabling analysts and DevSecOps practitioners to define signatures for malware identification across the software supply chain. Despite its pervasive use, the open-source YARA ecosystem remains characterized by ad-hoc...

Malicious code in xmrig-miner (PyPI)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: kam193 c3d760afc863697f46cbb6716644c1e7b7e937044ee10ce72b3bce7b549cdcc8 Importing the module starts a silent cryptocurrency mining in the background for a hardcoded wallet. --- Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicio...

Malicious code in py-sysbench (PyPI)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: kam193 bcd34dcdc69398d2b97a0890cc550974824096b2844524f868505aa32032f147 Importing the module starts a silent cryptocurrency mining in the background for a hardcoded wallet. --- Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicio...

MAL-2026-1280 Malicious code in py-sysbench (PyPI)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: kam193 bcd34dcdc69398d2b97a0890cc550974824096b2844524f868505aa32032f147 Importing the module starts a silent cryptocurrency mining in the background for a hardcoded wallet. --- Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicio...

Malicious code in cpucheck (PyPI)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: kam193 5c9d20d009145b270e9b9f2bb73540bb7484845f0cbe9c73f4cf20cc28f776c9 Importing the module starts a silent cryptocurrency mining in the background for a hardcoded wallet. --- Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicio...

MAL-2026-1279 Malicious code in cpucheck (PyPI)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: kam193 5c9d20d009145b270e9b9f2bb73540bb7484845f0cbe9c73f4cf20cc28f776c9 Importing the module starts a silent cryptocurrency mining in the background for a hardcoded wallet. --- Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicio...

Malicious code in pyutils-helper (PyPI)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: kam193 8b1055c03077c874d21f69aa9403cebd070e2b7398e27b44310c977219bc0e7a Importing the module starts a silent cryptocurrency mining in the background for a hardcoded wallet. --- Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicio...

MAL-2026-1281 Malicious code in pyutils-helper (PyPI)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: kam193 8b1055c03077c874d21f69aa9403cebd070e2b7398e27b44310c977219bc0e7a Importing the module starts a silent cryptocurrency mining in the background for a hardcoded wallet. --- Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicio...

Security Bulletin: Multiple security vulnerabilities are addressed with IBM Process Mining Interim Fix for February 2026

Summary In addition to many updates of operating system level packages, the following security vulnerabilities are addressed with IBM Process Mining 2.1.0 IF002 Vulnerability Details CVEID:CVE-2026-1225 DESCRIPTION: ACE vulnerability in configuration file processing by QOS.CH logback-core up to a...

Malicious code in myasicapi (PyPI)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: kam193 62067570b5217e75a025ba09e5e4f0d059439d8a7d30e056bdd501fe97e4f844 The code and related Github project promise to monitor hardware cryptominers. However, the code additionally hides two malicious capabilities functionalities: ...

WorldQuant Alpha Generator 代码问题漏洞

WorldQuant Alpha Generator is a mining software developed by zhutoutoutousan. Versions of WorldQuant Alpha Generator 1.0.9 and earlier have code vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities stem from incorrect operations with the parameter makerequest in the file...

Traditional Security Frameworks Leave Organizations Exposed to AI-Specific Attack Vectors

In December 2024, the popular Ultralytics AI library was compromised, installing malicious code that hijacked system resources for cryptocurrency mining. In August 2025, malicious Nx packages leaked 2,349 GitHub, cloud, and AI credentials. Throughout 2024, ChatGPT vulnerabilities allowed...

Compromised IAM Credentials Power a Large AWS Crypto Mining Campaign

An ongoing campaign has been observed targeting Amazon Web Services AWS customers using compromised Identity and Access Management IAM credentials to enable cryptocurrency mining. The activity, first detected by Amazon's GuardDuty managed threat detection service and its automated security...

Security Bulletin: Multiple security vulnerabilities are addressed with IBM Process Mining 2.1.0

Summary In addition to many updates of operating system level packages, the following security vulnerabilities are addressed with IBM Process Mining 2.1.0 Vulnerability Details CVEID:CVE-2025-41248 DESCRIPTION: The Spring Security annotation detection mechanism may not correctly resolve annotatio...

Identification of Malicious Posts on the Dark Web Using Supervised Machine Learning

Given the constant growth and increasing sophistication of cyberattacks, cybersecurity can no longer rely solely on traditional defense techniques and tools. Proactive detection of cyber threats has become essential to help security teams identify potential risks and implement effective mitigatio...

Incentive Attacks in BTC: Short-Term Revenue Changes and Long-Term Efficiencies

Bitcoin's BTC Difficulty Adjustment Algorithm DAA has been a source of vulnerability for incentive attacks such as selfish mining, block withholding and coin hopping strategies. In this paper, first, we rigorously study the short-term revenue change per hashpower of the adversarial and honest...