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New research into the infrastructure behind an emerging DDoS botnet named Abcbot has uncovered “clear” links with a cryptocurrency-mining botnet attack that came to light in December 2020. Attacks involving Abcbot, first disclosed by Qihoo 360’s Netlab security team in November 2021, are triggered via a malicious shell script that targets insecure cloud instances operated […]
The warning comes days after three rogue packages, okhsa, klow, and klown discovered by DevSecOps firm Sonatype, were removed from the NPM repository. On Friday, the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released a warning to disclose an incident related to the GitHub Advisory Database. According to CISA, a crypto-mining malware was hidden in a popular […]
Ukrainian authorities have seized the illegal cryptomining farm and recovered 3,800 PlayStation 4 gaming consoles and GPUs. The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has shut down an illegal cryptomining farm, which was operating at an extensive scale. According to the official report, the miners were performing their malicious activities from a utility room at a […]
The malware is capable of replacing the victim’s wallet address with one provided by its author(s). With cryptocurrencies becoming popular in the last couple of years, more and more people have turned to cryptomining hoping to benefit from the boom. In fact, this even led to the price of gaming GPUs rising. On the other […]
Researchers at security firm Sonatype have uncovered six malicious typosquatting packages in the official Python programming language’s PyPI repository, laced with cryptomining malware. Sonatype provides software supply chain automation services. The six packages were downloaded more than 5000 times. Sonatype security researchers wrote in their report that: “Our analysis tools are consistently catching and blocking counterfeit and […]
A crypto mining botnet operation, going for almost a year, is hijacking web shells of other hackers, according to report from Positive Technologies. Researchers have linked the source of the dangerous botnet to Neutrino gang. Back in 2017, Neutrino (aka Kasidet) was a dangerous trojan that launched DDoS attacks, recorded keystrokes and installed malware on […]
An estimated 2 million cyberattacks took place in 2018 costing more than $45 billion in damages worldwide. The worse part is that while cyberattacks are surging authorities are struggling to tackle the growing threat, said study released on Tuesday. Ransomware attacks According to the Internet Society’s Online Trust Alliance (OTA), which compiles data from the […]
Last month, June 9, 2019 we featured here in Hackercombat.com an article providing a quick glimpse of what a Security Operation Center (SOC) is all about. If we can make an analogy to human physiology, SOC is the organization’s strongest countermeasure against malicious foreign bodies, similar to T-cells. But of course, like anything in real […]
Security researchers found a cryptomining app in the Microsoft App Store. Researchers say that it was placed in the store between April and December 2018. It’s not clear how many users downloaded or installed the apps, but they had almost 1,900 user ratings. However, the Symantec researchers believe the apps were created by a single […]
There is very good news for Mozilla Firefox users. After improving the user experience with tracking protection function offering content blocking features and other changes in Firefox 63, Mozilla is aiming for another significant update in the upcoming version of the browser. The new version of Mozilla Firefox called Firefox 67, which is planned to […]
The average cost of a cyberattack today exceeds $1 million, as per a recent survey report. Security firm Radware, which provides cybersecurity and application delivery solutions, has released its 2018-2019 Global Application and Network Security Report, which brings to light this and other relevant findings. The Radware Global Application and Network Security Report, which is […]
In the year 2018, Cryptocoin mining malware has touched 4,000 percent. Maybe, that is one of the reason that we are seeing a decline in ransomware attacks. As reported in Zednet that according to McAfee’s threat report of December 2018, there were nearly four million new samples of coin miner malware in the third quarter, […]
According to a new report, around 415,000 routers throughout the world are infected with malware having the potential to steal computer resources and discreetly mine for the cryptocurrency. The campaign is an active one and it primarily targets MikroTik routers. Researchers claim that the cryptojacking attacks started in August and in the first string of […]
There’s a new hacking tool circulating in the underground Dark Web forums that let cybercriminals target Microsoft Windows computers. It has become the newest universal go-to tool to attack a Windows machine because it presents an utterly lethal combination of data stealing, cryptomining, and snooping capabilities. Discovered by Ben Hunter, a security researcher at ENSILO, […]
“DarkGate” malware uses Akamai, AWS DNS records and multiple payloads for cryptomining, credential theft and endpoint takeover. A sophisticated malware campaign has been identified by an enSilo researcher that hasn’t been detected before and is quite advanced than many of the malware identified before. It has been dubbed as DarkGate by the developer, reports researcher […]
2017 was a year of ransomware, primarily the WannaCry malware that made $4 billion in profits from the ransom payments of its poor victims globally. This year is a bit of a mash-up, with the rise of the cryptocurrency mining malware in prominence and the resurgence of banking trojans ready to bite its next victim. […]
A cryptocurrency mining malware is disguised as a Flash update that appears to be legitimate, warn researchers Cryptomining popularity exploded in 2017 when Ethereum’s value soared to unsuspected levels. The rush to exploit this opportunity area had a significant effect on the graphics card market, inspiring countless companies to launch their own virtual assets, which […]
Hackers are abusing Googlebot servers to deliver malicious payloads. Last year, HackRead exclusively reported on how hackers were using Google Adwords and Google Sites to spread malware. Then came another shocking research from Cisco Talos exposing how hackers exploited Google Search Results to distribute Zeus Panda banking trojan. Now, researchers at F5 identified a strange and infrequent behavior […]
Xbash is an “all in one” malware. Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 researchers have come to the conclusion that the notorious Xbash malware that has been attacking Linux and Windows servers is being operated by the Iron Group which is an infamous hacker collective previously involved in a number of cyber crimes involving the use […]
In all the future versions of the Firefox web browser, cryptojacking malware will be blocked. Mozilla, the company behind Firefox browser, announced on August 30 that it is launching an anti-tracking initiative, which will be implemented broadly over the next few months. Firefox has cited the study from Ghostery, a browser extension that about 55.4% […]
Currently, the malware is targeting unpatched MikroTik routers in Brazil but researchers believe it’s about time it will spread worldwide. Unpatched routers manufactured by MikroTik have become potential targets of cryptojacking malware campaigns in Brazil. According to the analysis of Trustwave’s security researcher Simon Kenin, an unprecedented increment in web-based cryptojacking/cryptomining attacks in Brazil has […]