Earlier this year, researchers from Akamai discovered attackers were abusing Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) vulnerabilities to conceal traffic, thus creating a malicious proxy system dubbed “UPnProxy.”
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Security researchers at Imperva have spotted a new generation of cryptojacking attacks dubbed RedisWannaMine that targets Windows database and application servers. The campain also leverages the leaked NSA exploit EternalBlue to exploit vulnerable Windows systems.
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Researchers at Proofpoint have been tracking a massive distributed botnet dubbed Smominru, a Monero cryptocurrency miner, that spreads using the EternalBlue Exploit (CVE-2017-0144).
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Security firms have recently seen numerous attacks whose main objective is to infect systems with crypto-mining software in an effort to profit off the rise of cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin, Ethereum and Monero.
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LG Electronics confirmed that WannaCry ransomware was responsible for last week’s infections that took down self-service kiosks.
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Hackers allegedly linked to Russian actor APT28 may be linked to a campaign targeting travelers in hotels in Europe and the Middle East, with activity dating back to July 2017.
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A free vulnerability scanner, “Eternal Blues”, was developed in late June by a security director Elad Erez to scan for Microsoft Windows SMB Server vulnerabilities, such as those exploited by recent WannaCry campaign and EternalBlue-based attacks.
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