Potential Sandwich Attack: Arbitrage bots can front run reward tokens being sent to the liquidity mining contracts

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact For the PARMiner and DemandMiner contracts, arbitrage bots could harvest significant portion of rewards by monitoring MEV, and front run any reward token either a.mimo or par being transferred to the liquidityMining contract i.e. call the deposit functio...

Watch Out! Cryptocurrency Miners Targeting Dockers, AWS and Alibaba Cloud

LemonDuck, a cross-platform cryptocurrency mining botnet, is targeting Docker to mine cryptocurrency on Linux systems as part of an active malware campaign. "It runs an anonymous mining operation by the use of proxy pools, which hide the wallet addresses," CrowdStrike said in a new report. "It...

Spring4Shell Vulnerability CVE-2022-22965 Exploited to Deploy Cryptocurrency Miners

Recently, we observed the Spring4Shell vulnerability — a remote code execution bug, assigned as CVE-2022-22965 — being actively exploited by malicious actors to deploy cryptocurrency miners...

Analyzing Attempts to Exploit the Spring4Shell Vulnerability CVE-2022-22965 to Deploy Cryptocurrency Miners

Recently, we observed attempts to exploit the Spring4Shell vulnerability — a remote code execution bug, assigned as CVE-2022-22965 — by malicious actors to deploy cryptocurrency miners...

Haskers Gang Gives Away ZingoStealer Malware to Other Cybercriminals for Free

A crimeware-related threat actor known as Haskers Gang has released an information-stealing malware called ZingoStealer for free on, allowing other criminal groups to leverage the tool for nefarious purposes. "It features the ability to steal sensitive information from victims and can download...

New EnemyBot DDoS Botnet Borrows Exploit Code from Mirai and Gafgyt

A threat group that pursues crypto mining and distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks has been linked to a new botnet called Enemybot, which has been discovered enslaving routers and Internet of Things IoT devices since last month. "This botnet is mainly derived from Gafgyt's source code but h...

First Malware Targeting AWS Lambda Serverless Platform Discovered

A first-of-its-kind malware targeting Amazon Web Services' AWS Lambda serverless computing platform has been discovered in the wild. Dubbed "Denonia" after the name of the domain it communicates with, "the malware uses newer address resolution techniques for command and control traffic to evade...

This Week in Security News - April 1, 2022

Probing the activities of cloud-based cryptocurrency-mining groups, and Lapsus$ ‘back from vacation’...

Spring Cloud Function SpEL Injection (CVE-2022-22963) Exploited in the Wild

Although Spring Cloud Functions are not as widespread as the Log4j library, and should provide a good separation from the hosting server, some draw the line between the two, due to the ease of exploitation over HTTP/s. This new vulnerability will definitely result in many threat actors launching...

QingScan 跨站脚本漏洞

QingScan is a batch vulnerability mining tool by a Chinese daxia individual developer. It is used to glue various good scanners. There is a security vulnerability in QingScan 1.3.0, there is no information about the vulnerability at the moment, please feel free to pay attention to CNNVD or vendor...

Why Organizations Should Take Cloud-Based Cryptocurrency-Mining Attacks Seriously

One of the recent trends we’ve observed is the rise of cloud-based cryptocurrency-mining groups that exploit cloud resources, specifically the CPU power of deployed cloud instances, to mine cryptocurrency...

Muhstik Botnet Targeting Redis Servers Using Recently Disclosed Vulnerability

Muhstik, a botnet infamous for propagating via web application exploits, has been observed targeting Redis servers using a recently disclosed vulnerability in the database system. The vulnerability relates to CVE-2022-0543, a Lua sandbox escape flaw in the open-source, in-memory, key-value data...

Botnet of Thousands of MikroTik Routers Abused in Glupteba, TrickBot Campaigns

Vulnerable routers from MikroTik have been misused to form what cybersecurity researchers have called one of the largest botnet-as-a-service cybercrime operations seen in recent years. According to a new piece of research published by Avast, a cryptocurrency mining campaign leveraging the...

Prophet Spider exploits Log4j and Citrix vulnerabilities to deploy webshells

THREAT LEVEL: Red. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here Prophet Spider is a well-known Initial Access Broker IAB group. Prophet Spiders tradecraft continues to grow while exploiting known web-server vulnerabilities such as Citrix and Log4j. A remote code execution RCE...

Hackers Who Broke Into NVIDIA's Network Leak DLSS Source Code Online

American chipmaking company NVIDIA on Tuesday confirmed that its network was breached as a result of a cyber attack, enabling the perpetrators to gain access to sensitive data, including source code purportedly associated with its Deep Learning Super Sampling DLSS technology. "We have no evidence...

Security update for bitcoin (moderate)

openSUSE Security Update: Security update for bitcoin Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2022:0072-1 Rating: moderate References: Cross-References: CVE-2021-3195 CVSS scores: CVE-2021-3195 NVD : 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N Affected Products: openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP3 An update...

'Roaming Mantis' Android Malware Targeting Europeans via Smishing Campaigns

A financially motivated campaign that targets Android devices and spreads mobile malware via SMS phishing techniques since at least 2018 has spread its tentacles to strike victims located in France and Germany for the first time. Dubbed Roaming Mantis, the latest spate of activities observed in...

Dark Souls 3 Servers Shut Down Due to Critical RCE Bug

There’s a dangerous remote-code execution RCE bug in the Dark Souls video game that could let attackers brick the PCs of online players. The flaw could allow attackers to do pretty much anything: As Kaspersky researchers explained on Monday, the bug “allows an attacker to execute almost any progr...

Active Exploitation of VMware Horizon Servers

This post is co-authored by Charlie Stafford, Lead Security Researcher. We will update this blog with further information as it becomes available. CVE | Vendor Advisory | AttackerKB | IVM Content | Patching Urgency | Blog's Last Update ---|---|---|---|---|--- CVE-2021-44228 | VMware Advisory |...

Norton antivirus installs cryptominer on devices but there is a way out

By Waqas The anti-virus giant Norton is being criticized for installing cryptominer that mine Ethereum. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Norton antivirus installs cryptominer on devices but there is a way out...