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Xanthe - Docker aware miner
By Vanja Svajcer and Adam Pridgen, Cisco Incident Command NEWS SUMMARY Ransomware attacks and big-game hunting making the headlines, but adversaries use plenty of other methods to monetize their efforts in less intrusive ways.Cisco Talos recently discovered a cryptocurrency-mining botnet attack...
The many ways you can be scammed on Facebook, part I
Scams can be found anywhere, and Facebook is no exception. And, with the holiday season just around the corner, and the world still weathering a pandemic, it pays to know what Facebook scams you, those close to you, and those you have professional relationships with could potentially encounter...
Multiple Botnets Exploiting Critical Oracle WebLogic Bug — PATCH NOW
Multiple botnets are targeting thousands of publicly exposed and still unpatched Oracle WebLogic servers to deploy crypto miners and steal sensitive information from infected systems. The attacks are taking aim at a recently patched WebLogic Server vulnerability, which was released by Oracle as...
Nation-State Hackers Caught Hiding Espionage Activities Behind Crypto Miners
A nation-state actor known for its cyber espionage campaigns since 2012 is now using coin miner techniques to stay under the radar and establish persistence on victim systems, according to new research. Attributing the shift to a threat actor tracked as Bismuth, Microsoft's Microsoft 365 Defender...
Threat actor leverages coin miner techniques to stay under the radar – here’s how to spot them
Cryptocurrency miners are typically associated with cybercriminal operations, not sophisticated nation state actor activity. They are not the most sophisticated type of threats, which also means that they are not among the most critical security issues that defenders address with urgency. Recent...
CVE-2020-26240
Go Ethereum, or "Geth", is the official Golang implementation of the Ethereum protocol. An ethash mining DAG generation flaw in Geth before version 1.9.24 could cause miners to erroneously calculate PoW in an upcoming epoch estimated early January, 2021. This happened on the ETC chain on...
Design/Logic Flaw
Go Ethereum, or "Geth", is the official Golang implementation of the Ethereum protocol. An ethash mining DAG generation flaw in Geth before version 1.9.24 could cause miners to erroneously calculate PoW in an upcoming epoch estimated early January, 2021. This happened on the ETC chain on...
CVE-2020-26240
CVE-2020-26240 affects Go Ethereum (Geth). The issue is an ethash mining DAG generation flaw that could cause miners to compute PoW incorrectly in an upcoming epoch; non-mining nodes are unaffected. Affected software: Geth prior to version 1.9.24. Root cause: DAG generation flaw in ethash logic. ...
CVE-2020-26240 Erroneous Proof of Work calculation in geth
Go Ethereum, or "Geth", is the official Golang implementation of the Ethereum protocol. An ethash mining DAG generation flaw in Geth before version 1.9.24 could cause miners to erroneously calculate PoW in an upcoming epoch estimated early January, 2021. This happened on the ETC chain on...
PT-2020-16368 · Ethereum · Geth
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Geth versions prior to 1.9.24 Description: An ethash mining DAG generation flaw in Geth could cause miners to erroneously calculate Proof of Work in an upcoming epoch. This issue is relevant only for miners, as non-mining nodes are unaffected...
Stantinko Botnet Now Targeting Linux Servers to Hide Behind Proxies
An adware and coin-miner botnet targeting Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and Kazakhstan at least since 2012 has now set its sights on Linux servers to fly under the radar. According to a new analysis published by Intezer today and shared with The Hacker News, the trojan masquerades as HTTPd, a commonl...
Stantinko Botnet Now Targeting Linux Servers to Hide Behind Proxies
An adware and coin-miner botnet targeting Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and Kazakhstan at least since 2012 has now set its sights on Linux servers to fly under the radar. According to a new analysis published by Intezer today and shared with The Hacker News, the trojan masquerades as HTTPd, a commonl...
Gitpaste-12 Worm Targets Linux Servers, IoT Devices
Researchers have uncovered a new worm targeting Linux based x86 servers, as well as Linux internet of things IoT devices that are based on ARM and MIPS CPUs. Of note, the malware utilizes GitHub and Pastebin for housing malicious component code, and has at least 12 different attack modules...
KashmirBlack Botnet Hijacks Thousands of Sites Running On Popular CMS Platforms
An active botnet comprising hundreds of thousands of hijacked systems spread across 30 countries is exploiting "dozens of known vulnerabilities" to target widely-used content management systems CMS. The "KashmirBlack" campaign, which is believed to have started around November 2019, aims for...
KashmirBlack Botnet Hijacks Thousands of Sites Running On Popular CMS Platforms
An active botnet comprising hundreds of thousands of hijacked systems spread across 30 countries is exploiting "dozens of known vulnerabilities" to target widely-used content management systems CMS. The "KashmirBlack" campaign, which is believed to have started around November 2019, aims for...
lincolnmining.com Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-1416206
Following coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has:       a. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence;       b. notified the website operator about its existence...
suricata-rules
This repository contains Suricata IDS Intrusion Detection System rules for detecting various types of malicious activity, including CobaltStrike, CryptoMiner, and other threats. The rules are designed to identify specific patterns and behaviors associated with these threats. The rules are organiz...
Lemon Duck Cryptocurrency-Mining Botnet Activity Spikes
Researchers are warning of a recent dramatic uptick in the activity of the Lemon Duck cryptocurrency-mining botnet, which targets victims’ computer resources to mine the Monero virtual currency. Click to Register! Researchers warn that Lemon Duck is “one of the more complex” mining botnets, with...
ALERT! Hackers targeting IoT devices with a new P2P botnet malware
Cybersecurity researchers have taken the wraps off a new botnet hijacking Internet-connected smart devices in the wild to perform nefarious tasks, mostly DDoS attacks, and illicit cryptocurrency coin mining. Discovered by Qihoo 360's Netlab security team, the HEH Botnet — written in Go language a...
ALERT! Hackers targeting IoT devices with a new P2P botnet malware
Cybersecurity researchers have taken the wraps off a new botnet hijacking Internet-connected smart devices in the wild to perform nefarious tasks, mostly DDoS attacks, and illicit cryptocurrency coin mining. Discovered by Qihoo 360's Netlab security team, the HEH Botnet — written in Go language a...