Pierluigi Paganini
March 02, 2023
Researchers from Cado Security discovered a cryptojacking campaign targeting misconfigured Redis database servers. Cado Labs researchers recently discovered a new cryptojacking campaign targeting insecure deployments of Redis database servers. Threat actors behind this campaign used the free and open source command line file transfer service transfer.sh. The attackers likely used the legitimate transfer.sh service is an attempt […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 21, 2022
Threat actors targeted tens thousands of unauthenticated Redis servers exposed on the internet as part of a cryptocurrency campaign. Redis, is a popular open source data structure tool that can be used as an in-memory distributed database, message broker or cache. The tool is not designed to be exposed on the Internet, however, researchers spotted […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 19, 2022
AquaSec researchers observed the cybercrime gang TeamTNT hijacking servers to run Bitcoin solver since early September. In the first week of September, AquaSec researchers identified at least three different attacks targeting their honeypots, the experts associated them with the cybercrime gang TeamTNT. The TeamTNT botnet is a crypto-mining malware operation that has been active since April 2020 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 15, 2022
Threat actors target gamers looking for cheats on YouTube with the RedLine Stealer information-stealing malware and crypto miners Researchers from Kaspersky have spotted a self-extracting archive, served to gamers looking for cheats on YouTube, that was employed to deliver the RedLine Stealer information-stealing malware and crypto miners. The RedLine malware allows operators to steal several […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 10, 2022
Threat actors are exploiting the recently disclosed CVE-2022-26134 RCE in Atlassian Confluence servers to deploy cryptocurrency miners. CheckPoint researchers have observed threat actors exploiting the recently disclosed CVE-2022-26134 remote code execution vulnerability in Atlassian Confluence servers to deploy cryptocurrency miners. Last week, Atlassian warned of a critical unpatched remote code execution vulnerability affecting all Confluence […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 15, 2022
Microsoft reported that the Sysrv botnet is targeting Windows and Linux servers exploiting flaws in the Spring Framework and WordPress. Microsoft Security Intelligence team Microsoft reported that a new variant of the Sysrv botnet, tracked as Sysrv-K, now includes exploits for vulnerabilities in the Spring Framework and WordPress. Threat actors use the botnet in a cryptomining campaign targeting Windows […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 26, 2021
Threat actors attempted to take advantage of the interest in the new ‘ Spider-Man: No Way Home’ movie to spread a Monero Cryptominer. Threat actors are attempting to capitalize the interest in the release of Spider-Man: No Way Home movie and use it as bait to spread a Monero cryptominer. ReasonLabs researchers spotted a Russian torrent website […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 10, 2021
TeamTNT hackers are targeting poorly configured Docker servers as part of an ongoing campaign that started in October. Trend Micro researchers reported that TeamTNT hackers are targeting poorly configured Docker servers exposing Docker REST APIs as part of an ongoing campaign that started in October. Threat actors execute malicious scripts to deploy Monero cryptocurrency miners, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 23, 2021
The U.S. CISA warned of crypto-mining malware hidden in a popular JavaScript NPM library, named UAParser.js, which has millions of weekly downloads. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency published an advisory to warn of the discovery of a crypto-mining malware in the popular NPM Package UAParser.js. The popular library has million of weekly downloads. “Versions of a popular […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 25, 2021
Threat actors target Kubernetes installs via Argo Workflows to cryptocurrency miners, security researchers from Intezer warn. Researchers from Intezer uncovered new attacks on Kubernetes (K8s) installs via misconfigured Argo Workflows aimed at deploying cryptocurrency miners. Argo Workflows is an open-source, container-native workflow engine designed to run on K8s clusters. The experts discovered Argo Workflows instances with […]
