crypto miner

Pierluigi Paganini March 04, 2025
Mass exploitation campaign hit 4,000+ ISP networks to deploy info stealers and crypto miners

A massive attack targets ISPs in China and the U.S. West Coast to deploy info stealers and crypto miners on compromised systems. The Splunk Threat Research Team discovered a mass exploitation campaign from Eastern Europe targeting ISPs in China and the U.S. West Coast to deploy info stealers and crypto miners. Threat actors use weak […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 10, 2025
Phishers abuse CrowdStrike brand targeting job seekers with cryptominer

CrowdStrike warns of a phishing campaign that uses its recruitment branding to trick recipients into downloading a fake application, which finally installs the XMRig cryptominer. CrowdStrike discovered a phishing campaign using its recruitment branding to trick recipients into downloading a fake application, which acts as a downloader for the XMRig cryptominer. The cybersecurity firm discovered […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 15, 2024
Attackers target Apache Hadoop and Flink to deliver cryptominers

Researchers devised a new attack that exploits misconfigurations in Apache Hadoop and Flink to deploy cryptocurrency miners. Cybersecurity researchers from cyber security firm Aqua have uncovered a new attack targeting Apache Hadoop and Flink applications. The attacks exploit misconfigurations in Apache Hadoop and Flink to deploy cryptocurrency cryptocurrency miners. The researchers reported that the attack […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 04, 2024
Experts found 3 malicious packages hiding crypto miners in PyPi repository

Researchers discovered three malicious packages in the PyPI repository targeting Linux systems with a cryptocurrency miner. Fortinet researchers discovered three malicious packages in the open-source PyPI repository. The three packages named modularseven, driftme, and catme were designed to target Linux systems to deploy a crypto miner. The packages have the same author, known as “sastra”, […]