Cryptomining – PossibleThreat Articles

The Microsoft 365 Defender Research Team has warned that attackers are increasingly leveraging Internet Information Services (IIS) extensions as covert backdoors into servers.

The post IIS extensions are on the rise as backdoors to servers appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

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Telerik UI exploitation leads to cryptominer, Cobalt Strike infections

June 15, 2022 0 Comments cobalt strike, Cryptomining, cve-2017-11357, cve-2017-1137, cve-2019-18935, PowerShell, security operations, SophosLabs Uncut, telerik, threat research, xmrig

Credit to Author: Matt Wixey| Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2022 11:00:05 +0000

Attacker targets bugs in a popular web application graphical interface development tool

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The Active Adversary Playbook 2022

June 7, 2022 0 Comments active adversary, artifacts, attack tools, cobalt strike, Cryptomining, cyberattacks, cyberthreats, dwell time, Exploit, featured, initial access broker, malware delivery system, mitre, proxylogon, proxyshell, Ransomware, Ransomware as a Service, security operations, sophos rapid response, vulnerability

Credit to Author: Tilly Travers| Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2022 11:02:43 +0000

Cyberattacker behaviors, tactics and tools seen on the frontline of incident response during 2021

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500M Avira Antivirus Users Introduced to Cryptomining

February 2, 2022 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, avast, avira crypto, Cryptomining, norton 360, norton crypto, nortonlifelock

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2022 18:05:14 +0000

Many readers were surprised to learn recently that the popular Norton 360 antivirus suite now ships with a program which lets customers make money mining virtual currency. But Norton 360 isn’t alone in this dubious endeavor: Avira antivirus — which has built a base of 500 million users worldwide largely by making the product free — was recently bought by the same company that owns Norton 360 and is introducing its customers to a service called Avira Crypto.

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Hiding malware downloads in Taylor Swift pics! New SophosLabs report

December 19, 2019 0 Comments Botnet, cryptocurrency, Cryptomining, malware, mykings, SophosLabs

Credit to Author: Paul Ducklin| Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2019 16:03:43 +0000

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Lemon_Duck PowerShell malware cryptojacks enterprise networks

October 1, 2019 0 Comments cryptojacking, Cryptomining, EternalBlue, fileless, lemon_duck, PowerShell, smb, SophosLabs, SophosLabs Uncut

Credit to Author: rajeshnataraj| Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2019 04:01:09 +0000

SophosLabs are monitoring a significant spike in crypto mining attacks, which spread quickly across enterprise networks. Starting from a single infection, these attacks use a variety of malicious scripts that, eventually, turn an enterprise’s large pool of CPU resources into efficient cryptocurrency mining slaves. The threat actors behind these campaigns have been using an array […]<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/jF91Bgk0dso” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Android based IoT devices with open ADB port inviting easy attacks by Crypto-miners

August 27, 2019 0 Comments Android, Cryptomining, IoT

Credit to Author: Sushmita Kalashikar| Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2019 11:10:07 +0000

The rapid pace at which connected smart home devices are increasing, have opened the gates for a new era of cyber-attacks on IoT devices including smart phones, TVs, IP cameras, etc. These attacks are mostly in the form of crypto mining attacks wherein cryptocurrency-mining botnet enters the targeted device via…