Jun 23, 2023Ravie LakshmananCryptocurrency / IoT Internet-facing Linux systems and Internet of Things (IoT) devices are being targeted as part of a new campaign designed to illicitly mine cryptocurrency. “The threat actors behind the attack use a backdoor that deploys a wide array of tools and components such as rootkits
Jun 15, 2023Ravie LakshmananCryptocurrency / Ransomware Ransomware actors and cryptocurrency scammers have joined nation-state actors in abusing cloud mining services to launder digital assets, new findings reveal. “Cryptocurrency mining is a crucial part of our industry, but it also holds special appeal to bad actors, as it provides a means
May 31, 2023Ravie LakshmananServer Security / Cryptocurrency A financially motivated threat actor is actively scouring the internet for unprotected Apache NiFi instances to covertly install a cryptocurrency miner and facilitate lateral movement. The findings come from the SANS Internet Storm Center (ISC), which detected a spike in HTTP requests for
May 22, 2023Ravie LakshmananCryptocurrency / Cloud Security A financially motivated threat actor of Indonesian origin has been observed leveraging Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances to carry out illicit crypto mining operations. Cloud security company’s Permiso P0 Labs, which first detected the group in November 2021, has
Apr 21, 2023Ravie LakshmananKubernetes / Cryptocurrency A large-scale attack campaign discovered in the wild has been exploiting Kubernetes (K8s) Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) to create backdoors and run cryptocurrency miners. “The attackers also deployed DaemonSets to take over and hijack resources of the K8s clusters they attack,” cloud security firm
Mar 15, 2023Ravie LakshmananServer Security / Cryptocurrency Cybersecurity researchers have discovered the first-ever illicit cryptocurrency mining campaign used to mint Dero since the start of February 2023. “The novel Dero cryptojacking operation concentrates on locating Kubernetes clusters with anonymous access enabled on a Kubernetes API and listening on non-standard ports