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The malware known as DirtyMoe has gained new worm-like propagation capabilities that allow it to expand its reach without requiring any user interaction, the latest research has found. “The worming module targets older well-known vulnerabilities, e.g., EternalBlue and Hot Potato Windows privilege escalation,” Avast researcher Martin Chlumecký said in a report published Wednesday. “One worm […]
A previously undocumented Windows malware has infected over 222,000 systems worldwide since at least June 2018, yielding its developer no less than 9,000 Moneros ($2 million) in illegal profits. Dubbed “Crackonosh,” the malware is distributed via illegal, cracked copies of popular software, only to disable antivirus programs installed in the machine and install a coin […]
Hundreds of botnets operate internationally to achieve various malicious objectives. One such botnet named Stantinko which has been operating since 2012 in countries such as Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and Kazakhstan controls over half a million computers globally. In its latest update, it has added a new capability of cryptomining making use of the highly anonymized […]
GetMonero.org, the official website of the privacy-focused cryptocurrency Monero was hacked to inject coin stealing malware on the systems of the people who were downloading the Morero wallet. This comes after a number of users reported that the hashes of the CLI [Command Line Interface] binaries downloaded from the website in order to set up […]
Harmless-looking audio files can distribute cryptocurrency miners and malware? Indeed these can! According to security researchers at BlackBerry Cylance a new malware campaign is doing the rounds over the internet. This campaign uses WAV files for delivering malware via steganography. While using these malicious files the user may not suspect any foul play because there […]
EternalBlue and DoublePulsar hacking tools are back in action. Symantec security researchers have identified that cybercriminals are still utilizing the classified exploits/hacking tools of the National Security Agency (NSA), which were stolen about two years back. The new malware has been dubbed Beapy by researchers. Beapy is a new malware that makes use of leaked […]
The Pirate Bay was caught twice secretly mining Monero cryptocurrency using Javascript powered by Coinhive. Popular in-browser crypto-mining service will be shutting down from March 9th, 2019 much to the dismay of hackers who loved it quite ardently. The reason behind this decision, according to Coinhive, is the declining value of Monero cryptocurrency due to the […]
Another day, another devastating ransomware attack; this time, computers at The City Hall of Del Rio, Texas have suffered a massive ransomware attack forcing authorities to completely shut down the targeted network. The attack took place on Thursday, January 10th after which the City’s Management Information Services (MIS) Department went on to isolate the malware by turning off the […]
A Chinese school headmaster Lei Hua was caught mining cryptocurrency using the school’s electricity. As a result, he had to lose his job. It happened at Puman Middle School in Hunan province of China. Initially, teachers complained about the loud noise that continued day and night while an increase in the school’s electricity consumption was also reported […]
The Pirate Bay is down for everyone for more than 20 hours. From the United States to India, all around the world authorities have told their Internet service providers (ISPs) to block each and every piracy site including The Pirate Bay but what about when these sites go down due to technical error or cyber attack? […]
ZombieBoy malware makes $1,000 Monero on a monthly basis. An independent security expert James Quinn has discovered a new family of cryptominers that has been dubbed as ZombieBoy. According to Quinn’s analysis, the newly discovered cryptomining worm clocked in at 43 KH/s which means as per the on-going Monero rate, it is making $1,000 on a […]
About a week ago, HackRead reported that the world’s largest BitTorrent tracker The Pirate Bay (TPB) has been secretly using its visitors’ computing power (CPU) to mine cryptocurrency without their consent. Here, it’s noteworthy that The Pirate Bay did the same twice last year. However, now, the website has publically acknowledged the practice by deciding […]
After being offline for over a week, The Pirate Bay is back online with a cryptocurrency mining code. Last year, it was reported that one of the most popular torrenting websites The Pirate Bay (TPB) was using Coinhive’s cryptocurrency mining code to generate Monero coins by using computing power (CPU) of its visitors without their consent […]
Newly discovered cryptocurrency mining malware called MasssMiner using various powerful exploits to compromise web servers to mine monero Cryptocurrency around the world. Its act as a worn that has capable of self-replicating through a number of different exploits also perform brute-force attack to compromise and access the Microsoft SQL Servers. It using various hacking tools and […]
Dubbed Cryptocurrency mining malware PyRoMine using ETERNALBLUE exploit to hack vulnerable windows based computer to mine Monero cryptocurrency. ETERNALBLUE is a Remote Code Execution (RCE) exploit that used by shadow brokers who was tied with NSA to abuse the SMBv1 file sharing protocol. Many of the organization has been used SMB Protocol on the internet […]
An active cryptocurrency mining campaign targeting Linux servers via PHP Weathermap Vulnerability to deploy cryptocurrency mining malware. The campaign uses an outdated security flaw with “Network Weathermap” that allow a remote attacker to inject arbitrary codes in the server. In the current campaign, cybercriminals deploy the XMRig miner as final payload in the target server. […]
Sandvine Products and Technology Used by Egypt, Turkey, and Syrian Governments to Install Spyware and Monero Mining. A Canadian security and human rights research group Citizen Lab has discovered that Turkey, Egypt, and Syrian governments are involved in the hijacking of local internet connections for the purpose of injecting surveillance malware. Moreover, Citizen Lab, run by […]
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 […]
Attackers hijacked 4275 websites to inject Coinhive Monero miner including the websites of government authorities(ico.org.uk), NHS Foundation (nhs.uk), and uscourts.gov. Crypto-Mining Attacks are one of the biggest emerging threats for enterprises. And the recent trend is more mainstream and is done directly via web pages. One thing in common for all the infected websites is […]
A malicious code that reuses Mirai bot spreading by a worm to mine Monero cryptocurrency and this is the first time Android worm reuse Mirai bot. The infection spreads by scanning the 5555 adb port using the malicious code and this port is used by adb debug interface on Android. This port should basically shut down on […]
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 […]