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Beware: 3 Malicious PyPI Packages Found Targeting Linux with Crypto Miners

Three new malicious packages have been discovered in the Python Package Index (PyPI) open-source repository with capabilities to deploy a cryptocurrency miner on affected Linux devices. The three harmful packages, named modularseven, driftme, and catme, attracted a total of 431 downloads over the past month before they were taken down. “These packages, upon initial use, […]

New Xbash Malware Attack on Linux & Windows with Botnet, Ransomware & Coinminer Capabilities

Newly discovered Xbash malware with multiple capabilities such as  Botnet, Ransomware & Coinminer to compromise windows and Linux machine which is controlled under the Iron-based threat actor group. Xbash malware has strong intrusion capabilities especially using ransomware and coin mining along with the self-replicative function to propagate across the infected network to compromise the vulnerable system. It also targets […]

Fileless Cryptocurrency Miner that affects Windows Machine Through WMI and EternalBlue

Nowadays Hackers Distributing Advanced Fileless Malware with Evasion capabilities which are very Difficult to Detect. Security experts from Trend Micro Identified a new crypto miner which uses Fileless malware Techniques. It uses Windows Management Instrumentation for fileless persistence and uses scrcons.exe to execute its scripts. In order to enter into the system, it uses EternalBlue […]