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Hackers Exploit Critical Oracle WebLogic Server Vulnerability by Hiding Malware in Certificate Files(.cer)

Hackers abuse Oracle WebLogic Server Vulnerability CVE-2019-2725 to deliver Monero Miner. The vulnerability is easily exploitable, any unauthenticated attacker with HTTP access to the server can attack without authentication. Trend Micro observed a new cryptocurrency-mining activity involving the vulnerability and to hide the malicious code they used certificate files. Malware Infection Malware exploits CVE-2019-2725 to […]

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Hackers Abusing Apache CouchDB Vulnerabilities to Deploy Malware & Mining Monero Cryptocurrency

Cryptocurrency Mining Malware performing a crypto mining attack by exploiting the vulnerabilities in the popular database system. According to their global Sensor reports the new attacks targetting the vulnerabilities in the popular open source database Apache CouchDB system. Past few year Crypto currency mining is a very easy method for cybercriminals to Generating the huge revenue by hijacking […]

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Millions of Android Users Hacked by Dangerous Drive-by Cryptomining Attack to Mine Monero

A newly discovered Cryptoming campaign called Drive-by Cryptomining targeted million of Android user to mine Monerocoins and this campaign Started around November 2017 using different type of malicious domain. A Malicious lucrative Payload’s are distributing from a particular hacking group that mainly abusing android users device to mine the Monero Cryptocurrency. Past few year Crypto […]

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Cryptocurrency Mining Smominru Botnet Infected more than 500,000 Windows Machines

Security researchers from Proofpoint detected Monero miners that spread using the infamous EternalBlue Exploit. Attackers using persistent Botnet dubbed Smominru to spread the infection through all possible exploits. The year 2017 is well known for Ransomware, data breaches and Hacking attacks targetting Cryptocurrency exchanges. In 2017 WannaCry Ransomware uses the same EternalBlue vulnerability to exploit […]

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More than 30 million people have been Affected with Biggest Cryptocurrency Mining Attack

Security researchers from Palo Alto Networks detected a large-scale cryptocurrency mining operation than last for more than 4 months. Researchers believe it impacted more than 30 million people worldwide. Attackers used malware for Mining Monero using high-performance XMRig. Threat actors used VBS file and various URL Shortening methods to install and run the XMRig payload. […]

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Oracle Weblogic Exploit to Deploy Monero Miner

Oracle WebLogic application server is vulnerable to cryptocurrency mining.The security researcher has found this exploit to mine monero coins in the compromised machine. This critical bug allows hackers to run arbitrary commands with WebLogic server with user privileges. The vulnerability (CVE 2017-10271) was present in the WebLogic Web Services component (wls-wsat) and due to lack of improperly […]

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