CVE-2021-4229 ua-parser-js Crypto Mining backdoor

A vulnerability was found in ua-parser-js 0.7.29/0.8.0/1.0.0. It has been rated as critical. This issue affects the crypto mining component which introduces a backdoor. Upgrading to version 0.7.30, 0.8.1 and 1.0.1 is able to address this issue. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component...

CVE-2021-4229 ua-parser-js Crypto Mining backdoor

A vulnerability was found in ua-parser-js 0.7.29/0.8.0/1.0.0. It has been rated as critical. This issue affects the crypto mining component which introduces a backdoor. Upgrading to version 0.7.30, 0.8.1 and 1.0.1 is able to address this issue. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component...

CVE-2021-4229

A vulnerability was found in ua-parser-js 0.7.29/0.8.0/1.0.0. It has been rated as critical. This issue affects the crypto mining component which introduces a backdoor. Upgrading to version 0.7.30, 0.8.1 and 1.0.1 is able to address this issue. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component...

CVE-2021-4229: Hidden Functionality

A vulnerability was found in ua-parser-js 0.7.29/0.8.0/1.0.0. It has been rated as critical. This issue affects the crypto mining component which introduces a backdoor. Upgrading to version 0.7.30, 0.8.1 and 1.0.1 is able to address this issue. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component...

Sysrv botnet is out to mine Monero on your Windows and Linux servers

In a Twitter thread, the Microsoft Security Intelligence team have revealed new information about the latest versions of the Sysrv botnet. The variant they focused on uses a range of known exploits for vulnerabilities in web apps and databases to install cryptocurrency miners on both Windows and...

How COVID-19 fuelled a surge in malware

2021 saw a massive surge in detections of malware, adware, and Potentially Unwanted Programs PUPs. It didnt matter what the computers were used for or what operating system they ran—across business and home computers, on Windows and on Mac, detections went up, enormously. Detections of malware on...

Insurance Management System SQL Injection Vulnerability (CNVD-2022-85117)

Insurance Management System is an insurance management system from the personal developer Angel Jude Reyes Suarez. Insurance Management System 1.0 is vulnerable to SQL injection, which could be exploited by attackers to obtain information about data in the target system...

Users can use updateBoost function to claim unfairly large rewards from liquidity mining contracts for themselves at cost of other users.

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact Users aware of this vulnerability could effectively steal a portion of liquidity mining rewards from honest users. Affected contracts are: SupplyMinerV2, DemandMinerV2, PARMinerV2 VotingMinerV2 is less affected because locking veMIMO in votingEscrow...

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...

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...

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...

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...