Hackers Hide Monero Cryptominer in Scarlett Johansson’s Picture

By Uzair Amir Security researchers have identified a new but unusually distributed Monero This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hackers Hide Monero Cryptominer in Scarlett Johansson’s Picture...

A Deep Dive into Database Attacks [Part III]: Why Scarlett Johansson’s Picture Got My Postgres Database to Start Mining Monero

As part of Imperva’s efforts to protect our customers’ data, we have an ongoing research project focused on analyzing and sharing different attack methods on databases. If you aren’t familiar with this project, which we call StickyDB, please read Part I and Part II. There we explain this database...

Mac Software Mines Cryptocurrency in Exchange for Free Access to Premium Account

Nothing comes for free, especially online. Would you be okay with allowing a few paid services to mine cryptocurrencies using your system instead of paying the subscription fee? Most free websites and services often rely on advertising revenue to survive, but now there is a new way to make...

State Spy Programs, espionage & Monero mining – fingers point at Sandvine

By Waqas Sandvine Products and Technology Used by Egypt, Turkey, and Syrian This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: State Spy Programs, espionage & Monero mining - fingers point at Sandvine...

ISPs Caught Injecting Cryptocurrency Miners and Spyware In Some Countries

Governments in Turkey and Syria have been caught hijacking local internet users' connections to secretly inject surveillance malware, while the same mass interception technology has been found secretly injecting browser-based cryptocurrency mining scripts into users' web traffic in Egypt...

Memcached DDoS Exploit Code and List of 17,000 Vulnerable Servers Released

Two separate proofs-of-concept PoC exploit code for Memcached amplification attack have been released online that could allow even script-kiddies to launch massive DDoS attacks using UDP reflections easily. The first DDoS tool is written in C programming language and works with a pre-compiled lis...

Cryptomining Gold Rush: One Gang Rakes In $7M Over 6 Months

The bloom is on the criminal cryptomining of computer resources and the reason is obvious – it’s lucrative. One cryptomining gang tracked by researchers over the past six months minted $7 million with the help of 10,000 computers infected with mining malware. The rise of malicious cryptomining...

DDoS Attacks Now Launched with Monero Ransom Notes

By Waqas After a brief hiatus, attackers have returned with a series This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: DDoS Attacks Now Launched with Monero Ransom Notes...

memcached, now with extortion!

Over the past week, memcached reflection attacks have taken the DDoS scene by storm. With several attacks hitting organizations across many industries, including a record breaking 1.3Tbps attack against an Akamai customer. Akamai has observed a new trend in extortion attempts using memcached...

Beware; rTorrent Client Exploited to Mine Monero Cryptocurrency

By Waqas rTorrent Client Exploited to Mine Monero Cryptocurrency Thanks to XML-RPC This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Beware; rTorrent Client Exploited to Mine Monero Cryptocurrency...

Monero: Monero GUI not linked with /DYNAMICBASE or hardening on windows, no ASLR

Summary: The monero daemon is compiled and linked without ASLR, at least on windows. This security hardening feature should be enabled in order to make exploiting of this service harder. Description: See above. Releases Affected: At least v0.11.1.0 probably more / Tested on Windows 8.1 Steps To...

Ad Network Circumvents Ad-Blocking Tools To Run In-Browser Cryptojacker Scripts

Cryptojackers are getting resourceful and have figured out how to bypass ad-blocking software and deliver the Coinhive JavaScript miner via browser-based ads. Researchers at Qihoo’s Netlab 360 said it recently spotted an advertising network that was using what is called a domain generation...

LA Times website hacked to mine Monero cryptocurrency

By Waqas Another day, another Monero cryptocurrency miner - This time, the target This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: LA Times website hacked to mine Monero cryptocurrency...

Cryptojacking Attack Found on Los Angeles Times Website

Researchers said they found cryptojacking code hidden on the Los Angeles Times’ interactive Homicide Report webpage that was quietly harnessing visitors’ CPUs to mine Monero cryptocurrency. The cryptojacking incident was found by Troy Mursch, a security researcher at Bad Packets Report, on...

New Research: Crypto-mining Drives Almost 90% of All Remote Code Execution Attacks

It’s early in 2018 and we have already witnessed one of the top contenders in this year’s web application attacks. Continuing the trend from the last months of 2017, crypto-mining malware is quickly becoming attackers’ favorite modus operandi. In December 2017, 88 percent of all remote code...

Hackers made $3M on Jenkins server in one of biggest mining ops ever

By Waqas Another day, another Monero ming scam - This one, researchers This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hackers made $3M on Jenkins server in one of biggest mining ops ever...

Monero Mining Malware Infecting Android Smart TVs & Smartphones

By Waqas The malicious Monero mining campaign is spreading fast through ADB.miner This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Monero Mining Malware Infecting Android Smart TVs & Smartphones...

Millions of Android Phones Hacked to Mine Monero Coins

By Waqas Newly Identified Drive-by Monero Cryptomining Campaign Targeted Millions of Android This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Millions of Android Phones Hacked to Mine Monero Coins...

Browsealoud plugin hacked to mine Monero on 4,000 Govt websites

By Waqas There were thousands of UK and US government websites mining Monero This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Browsealoud plugin hacked to mine Monero on 4,000 Govt websites...

Drive-by cryptomining campaign targets millions of Android users

Malvertising and online fraud through forced redirects and Trojanized apps—to cite the two most common examples—are increasingly plaguing Android users. In many cases, this is made worse by the fact that people often don't use web filtering or security applications on their mobile devices. A...