Smominru Botnet Indiscriminately Hacked Over 90,000 Computers Just Last Month

Insecure Internet-connected devices have aided different types of cybercrime for years, most common being DDoS and spam campaigns. But cybercriminals have now shifted toward a profitable scheme where botnets do not just launch DDoS or spam—they mine cryptocurrencies as well. Smominru, an infamous...

Panda Threat Group Mines for Monero With Updated Payload, Targets

The Panda threat group, best known for launching the widespread and successful 2018 “MassMiner” cryptomining malware campaign, has continued to use malware to mine cryptocurrency in more recent attacks. A fresh analysis of the group reveals Panda has adopted a newly-updated infrastructure, payloa...

Cryptocurrency miners aren’t dead yet: Documenting the voracious but simple “Panda”

By Christopher Evans and David Liebenberg. Executive summary A new threat actor named "Panda" has generated thousands of dollars worth of the Monero cryptocurrency through the use of remote access tools RATs and illicit cryptocurrency-mining malware. This is far from the most sophisticated actor...

Watchbog and the Importance of Patching

By Luke DuCharme and Paul Lee. What Happened? Cisco Incident Response CSIRS recently responded to an incident involving the Watchbog cryptomining botnet. The attackers were able to exploit CVE-2018-1000861 to gain a foothold and install the Watchbog malware on the affected systems. This Linux-bas...

PsiXBot Adds PornModule, Google DNS Service to Its Arsenal

The PsiXBot malware has made a few changes in recent weeks, including implementing Google’s DNS over HTTPS DoH and adding the blackmail-ready “PornModule” to its bag of tricks. PsiXBot is a multi-use Windows malware that has a range of capabilities, including keylogging, stealing passwords and...

A week in security (August 26 – September 1)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we analysed the Android xHelper trojan, we wondered why the Nextdoor app would send out letters on behalf of their customers, reported about a study that explores the clickjacking problem across top Alexa-ranked websites, wondered how to get the board to invest in...

Capital One Hacker Also Accused of Hacking 30 More Companies and CryptoJacking

Former Amazon employee Paige Thompson, who was arrested last month in relation to the Capital One data breach, has been accused of hacking not only the U.S. credit card issuer, but also more than 30 other companies. An indictment unsealed on Wednesday revealed that Thompson not just stole data fr...

CVE-2019-13405

A broken access control vulnerability found in Advan VD-1 firmware version 230 leads to insecure ADB service. An attacker can send a POST request to cgibin/AdbSetting.cgi to enable ADB without any authentication then take the compromised device as a relay or to install mining software...

Improper access control

A broken access control vulnerability found in Advan VD-1 firmware version 230 leads to insecure ADB service. An attacker can send a POST request to cgibin/AdbSetting.cgi to enable ADB without any authentication then take the compromised device as a relay or to install mining software...

CVE-2019-13405

CVE-2019-13405 affects AndroVideo Advan VD-1 firmware v230. The issue is broken access control allowing an unauthenticated POST to cgibin/AdbSetting.cgi to enable ADB, enabling the attacker to take control of the device as a relay or install mining software. The public docs do not provide a patch...

CVE-2019-13405 Advan VD-1 allows a remote user to enable Android Debug Bridge without any authentication

A broken access control vulnerability found in Advan VD-1 firmware version 230 leads to insecure ADB service. An attacker can send a POST request to cgibin/AdbSetting.cgi to enable ADB without any authentication then take the compromised device as a relay or to install mining software...

Cryptocurrency Mining Employees Expose Nuclear Plant to Internet

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Authorities arrest culprits for crypto mining at Ukraine nuclear plant

By Sudais Authorities have arrested several people for using a nuclear plant in South Ukraine for illegal crypto mining. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Authorities arrest culprits for crypto mining at Ukraine nuclear plant...

IT threat evolution Q2 2019

Targeted attacks and malware campaigns More about ShadowHammer In March, we published the results of our investigation into a sophisticated supply-chain attack involving the ASUS Live Update Utility, used to deliver BIOS, UEFI and software updates to ASUS laptops and desktops. The attackers added...

Carbon Black Threat Analysis Unit (TAU) Uncovers Significant Evolution of Popular Cryptomining Campaign Affecting More than 500,000 Computers

Carbon Black’s CB Threat Analysis Unit TAU has uncovered a secondary component in a well-known cryptomining campaign. The malware has been enhanced to also steal system access information for possible sale on the dark web. Combined together, this attack is being classified as “Access Mining.” Thi...

honggfuzz vulnerability mining technology principle analysis-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Google AFLWinAFL, the libfuzzer and honggfuzz is the most famous of the three based on code coverage fuzzer is. Online on the AFLWinAFLanalysis of the articles more, and on the latter two Analysis Articles less. Before the spring brother has written about honggfuzz article: honggfuzz vulnerabilit...

RATs and stealers rush through “Heaven’s Gate” with new loader

By Holger Unterbrink and Edmund Brumaghin. Executive summary Malware is constantly finding new ways to avoid detection. This doesn't mean that some will never be detected, but it does allow adversaries to increase the period of time between initial release and detection. Flying under the radar fo...

Ann Day honey network capture“use of the ElasticSearch Groovy vulnerability Monroe coin(Dog)mining”event analysis-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

1, Overview 2019 6 May 13, Ann Day honey network capture to use CVE-2015-1427ElasticSearch Groovyremote command execution vulnerability attacks. The vulnerability principle is Elaticsearch groovy as a scripting language, and based on the use of black and white lists of the sandbox mechanism to...

Router 0day vulnerability discovery practical-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

! Last year 7 month in the company's internal share over this issue, said to also almost a year, too lazy to now only issued to. In 2018, 3, 4 on more than two or three months time, spent more and more time to engage in a domestic router, dug some holes, after also don't get it. Also wrote a litt...

This Cryptomining Malware Launches Linux VMs On Windows and macOS

Cybersecurity researchers from at least two firms today unveiled details of a new strain of malware that targets Windows and macOS systems with a Linux-based cryptocurrency mining malware. It may sound strange, but it's true. Dubbed "LoudMiner " and also "Bird Miner, " the attack leverages...