Cryptocurrency miner

Pierluigi Paganini April 26, 2018
CVE-2018-7602 – Drupal addressed a new vulnerability associated with Drupalgeddon2 flaw

The new flaw tracked as CVE-2018-7602, is a highly critical remote code execution issue, Drupal team fixed it with the release of versions 7.59, 8.4.8 and 8.5.3. Drupal team has released updates for versions 7 and 8 of the popular content management system (CMS) to address the recently disclosed CVE-2018-7600 Drupalgeddon2 flaw. The new flaw tracked as CVE-2018-7602, is a highly […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 02, 2018
HiddenMiner Android Cryptocurrency miner can brick your device

Researchers at Trend Micro recently discovered a new strain of Android miner dubbed ANDROIDOS HIDDENMINER that can brick infected devices Crooks are looking with increasing interest cryptocurrency mining malware developed for mobile devices. Researchers at Trend Micro recently discovered a new strain of Android malware dubbed ANDROIDOS HIDDENMINER that abuse device CPU to mine Monero cryptocurrency. HiddenMiner […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 09, 2018
Dofoil Trojan used to deploy cryptocurrency miner on more than 500,000 PCs in a few hours

Microsoft experts observed more than more than 500,000 computers infected with Dofoil Trojan used to download a cryptocurrency miner. A few days ago, researchers at Microsoft announced that Windows Defender Antivirus blocked more than 80,000 instances of several malicious code that exhibited advanced cross-process injection techniques, persistence mechanisms, and evasion methods. According to Microsoft, the malware were […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 22, 2018
Hackers compromised a Tesla Internal Servers with a Cryptocurrency miner

Cloud security firm RedLock discovered that hackers have compromised the Tesla cloud computing platform to mine cryptocurrency. Tesla has confirmed that hackers have compromised its cloud computing platform to mine cryptocurrency, after the incident was discovered by cloud security firm RedLock. The hackers have breached the Tesla cloud servers and have installed a crypto currency […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 22, 2017
Digmine Cryptocurrency Miner spreads via Facebook messenger

Researchers from security firm Trend Micro observed crooks spreading a new cryptocurrency mining bot dubbed Digmine via Facebook Messenger. Watch out for video file (packed in zip archive) sent by your friends via Facebook messenger, according to the researchers from security firm Trend Micro crooks are using this technique to spread a new cryptocurrency mining bot dubbed Digmine. The bot […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 17, 2017
The Russian pipeline giant Transneft infected with a Monero cryptocurrency miner

The Russian pipeline giant Transneft admitted its computers were used for mining Monero cryptocurrency, the company removed the malware from its computers. The Russian pipeline giant Transneft announced its systems were infected with a Monero cryptocurrency miner. The company confirmed it has successfully removed the threat from its systems, the company spokesman Igor Demin told Reuters the cryptomining […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 07, 2017
Thousands of WordPress sites infected with a Keylogger and cryptocurrency miner scripts

Nearly 5,500 WordPress websites are infected with a malicious script that logs keystrokes and in some loads a cryptocurrency miner in the visitors’ browsers. The experts from security firm Sucuri observed that that malicious script is being loaded from the “cloudflare.solutions” domain, that anyway is not linked with Cloudflare. According to PublicWWW, this malicious script […]