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Smominru mining botnet

Cybersecurity Attacks, Malware, Vulnerabilities & Exploits / Frank Crast / February 5, 2018 / CVE-2017-0144, CVE-2017-0176, EsteemAudit, EternalBlue, malware, MS17-010, SMB, Smominru, Vulnerabilities

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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Malvertising campaign delivers cryptocurrency miners

Cybersecurity Attacks, Malware / Frank Crast / January 26, 2018 / CoinHive, Cryptocurrency, malvertising, malware

Cyber criminals are abusing Google’s DoubleClick service to deliver a Coinhive cryptocurrency miner as part of a malicious campaign.

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New Dridex malware campaign uses FTP sites

Leave a Comment / Cybersecurity Attacks, Malware / Frank Crast / January 22, 2018 / banking, Dridex, FTP, malware, Trojan

Security researchers have spotted a new email campaign last week that is distributing a new variant of the Dridex banking trojan.

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Turla group updates Neuron malware

Leave a Comment / Cybercrime, Cybersecurity Attacks, Malware / Frank Crast / January 19, 2018 / malware, Nautilus, Neuron, Turla

The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has published new threat intelligence on the Turla group, a cyber threat group that targets organizations in the UK.

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Zyklon malware campaign targets Office vulnerabilities

Cybersecurity Attacks, Malware / Frank Crast / January 18, 2018 / malware, Office, Vulnerabilities, Zyklon

Security researchers have spotted hackers exploiting newer Microsoft Office vulnerabilities to spread Zyklon HTTP malware.

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MaMi DNS hijacking malware targets Mac OS X

Cybersecurity Attacks, Endpoint Security, Network Security / Frank Crast / January 15, 2018 / DNS, DNSUnlocker, macOS, malware, MaMi, MyCoupon, OS X

A security researcher has spotted a new strain of malware dubbed “MaMi” (OSX/MaMi) that targets Mac OS X DNS settings.

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BrickerBot IoT malware lessons learned

Leave a Comment / Cybersecurity Attacks, Internet of Things (IoT), Malware, Vulnerabilities & Exploits, Zero-days / Frank Crast / December 29, 2017 / BrickerBot, IOT, malware, RCE, Zero-day

Researchers at Trustwave performed a deep dive analysis of BrickerBot malware code to discover potential 0day vulnerabilities or lessons learned to help improve Internet of Things (IoT) security.

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Satori malware made public

Leave a Comment / Cybersecurity Attacks, Malware, Zero-days / Frank Crast / December 29, 2017 / botnet, CVE-2017-17215, DDoS, Huawei, malware, Router, Satori

As Checkpoint researchers discovered earlier this week, a variant of Mirai malware dubbed Satori was used to attack hundreds of thousands of Huawei home routers in the past several weeks. Now the Satori exploit code used in the attack is now public, Threatpost reports. Researchers further warn that the malicious code could quickly be used to launch common DDoS attacks

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