Hackers Infect Over 200,000 MikroTik Routers With Crypto Mining Malware

Security researchers have discovered at least three massive malware campaigns exploiting hundreds of thousands of unpatched MikroTik routers to secretly install cryptocurrency miners on computers connected to them. In all, the malware campaigns have compromised more than 210,000 routers from...

Hackers Infect Over 200,000 MikroTik Routers With Crypto Mining Malware

Security researchers have discovered at least three massive malware campaigns exploiting hundreds of thousands of unpatched MikroTik routers to secretly install cryptocurrency miners on computers connected to them. In all, the malware campaigns have compromised more than 210,000 routers from...

Staying Safe in the Era of Browser-based Cryptocurrency Mining

Qualys Malware Research Labs is announcing the release of Qualys BrowserCheck CoinBlocker Chrome extension to detect and block browser-based cryptocurrency mining, aka cryptojacking. Cryptojacking Cryptojacking attacks leverage the victim system’s resources via malicious JavaScript to mine certai...

Newsmaker Interview: Troy Mursch on Why Cryptojacking Isn’t Going Away

Cyber criminals have seen a golden opportunity in the meteoric rise of cryptocurrencies over the past year. They are harnessing devices – from laptops, to desktops, all the way up to servers – to mine cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin or Monero. This malicious move, dubbed by some researchers as...

How the Rise of Cryptocurrencies Is Shaping the Cyber Crime Landscape: The Growth of Miners

Introduction Cyber criminals tend to favor cryptocurrencies because they provide a certain level of anonymity and can be easily monetized. This interest has increased in recent years, stemming far beyond the desire to simply use cryptocurrencies as a method of payment for illicit tools and...

How the Rise of Cryptocurrencies Is Shaping the Cyber Crime Landscape: The Growth of Miners

Introduction Cyber criminals tend to favor cryptocurrencies because they provide a certain level of anonymity and can be easily monetized. This interest has increased in recent years, stemming far beyond the desire to simply use cryptocurrencies as a method of payment for illicit tools and...

The Pirate Bay: We mine Monero from your CPU, install Adblocker or leave

By Waqas About a week ago, HackRead reported that the world's largest This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: The Pirate Bay: We mine Monero from your CPU, install Adblocker or leave...

Monero: Attcker can trick monero wallet into reporting it recived twice as much with alternative tx_keypubs

Summary: multiple identical txpubkeys were patched, but you can still use alternative txpubkeys to get the same result. Description: An attacker can craft an XMR transaction which causes the receiving wallet to report that it received twice as much XMR as the attacker actually sent. The balance o...

Monero: A bug in the Monero wallet balance can enable theft from exchanges

Summary: A Monero bug already fixed in master allows theft from exchanges. This has been exploited again a Monero-derived coin, so the exploit may be underway currently. Description: fluffypony: Also please mention you spoke to me and I recommended you put it on HackerOne PR 3985 fixed a wallet...

CoinHive URL Shortener Abused to Secretly Mine Cryptocurrency Using Hacked Sites

Security researchers have been warning about a new malicious campaign that leverages an alternative scheme to mine cryptocurrencies without directly injecting the infamous CoinHive JavaScript into thousands of hacked websites. Coinhive is a popular browser-based service that offers website owners...

CoinHive URL Shortener Abused to Secretly Mine Cryptocurrency Using Hacked Sites

Security researchers have been warning about a new malicious campaign that leverages an alternative scheme to mine cryptocurrencies without directly injecting the infamous CoinHive JavaScript into thousands of hacked websites. Coinhive is a popular browser-based service that offers website owners...

RIG Exploit Kit Delivering Monero Miner Via PROPagate Injection Technique

Introduction Through FireEye Dynamic Threat Intelligence DTI, we observed RIG Exploit Kit EK delivering a dropper that leverages the PROPagate injection technique to inject code that downloads and executes a Monero miner similar activity has been reported by Trend Micro. Apart from leveraging a...

RIG Exploit Kit Delivering Monero Miner Via PROPagate Injection Technique

Introduction Through FireEye Dynamic Threat Intelligence DTI, we observed RIG Exploit Kit EK delivering a dropper that leverages the PROPagate injection technique to inject code that downloads and executes a Monero miner similar activity has been reported by Trend Micro. Apart from leveraging a...

Cb ThreatSight Investigation Reveals RETADUP Worm Leverages AutoIt to Launch Monero Cryptomining Campaign

While monitoring a customer’s environment, the Carbon Black ThreatSight team discovered a series of unusual alerts. Further investigation of the suspect processes revealed these alerts were related to an attacker leveraging the open-source Monero framework to launch a crypto-mining campaign. Afte...

Monero: Misreporting of received amount by show_transfers

Summary: A sender may cause showtransfers to report a higher amount that was actually sent on the recipient's showtransfers output. Description: Due to a flaw in processnewtransaction in wallet2.cpp, if the tx pubkey is present multiple times, it will decode outputs correctly as many times, and a...

Monero: monerod can be disabled by a well-timed TCP reset packet

Summary: A well-timed TCP reset RST can cause monerod or any service relying on epee to stop accepting new connections. Description: When a new connection is attempted, the handleaccept function is called. This does some error checking and finishes setting up the connection. Once the connection i...

Monero: Constant-time comparison is not always implemented; critical areas are vulnerable to key-timing attacks

In my most superficial of reviews, constant-time comparison appears to not be globally implemented at a glance, only implemented within the ref10 implementation. With that said, the following areas either appear to be vulnerable, or are potentially vulnerable, to key-timing attacks: 1. Containers...

Prowli malware takes over 40,000 devices worldwide for Monero mining

By Waqas According to a newly released report, a malicious crypto-mining and This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Prowli malware takes over 40,000 devices worldwide for Monero mining...

Monero: Trusted daemon check fails when proxied through torsocks or proxychains

Summary: If torsocks1 or proxychains1 is enforced when using Monero wallet with a remote node without explicit --untrusted-daemon arguments given, the application will assume the daemon is trusted. Description: By default, the wallet checks if the daemon address can be trusted by calling...

Monero: forum.getmonero.org Shell upload

Summary: The method uploadProfile in the UsersController allows an attacker to upload a shell to the target server due to lack of image validation. Description: Steps To Reproduce: 1. Open POC https://forum.getmonero.org/uploads/profile/lNobodyl1527340454.php or...