#mining malware

An AWS Virtual Machine Is Infected With Mining Malware. There Could Be Others

A cybersecurity firm has unearthed a monero mining script embedded in a public instance of an Amazon Web Service (AWS) virtual machine. Now the firm is raising the question: How many other community Amazon Machine Instances (AMIs) are infected with the same malware?

Researchers at Mitigarevealed in a blog post today that an AWS AMI for a Windows 2008 virtual server hosted by an unverified…

Indian Users Almost 5 Times More Likely to Encounter Crypto Hacking: Microsoft Report

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Hackers Plant Crypto Miners by Exploiting Flaw in Popular Server Framework Salt

A hacking group has installed crypto mining malware into a company server through a weakness in Salt, a popular infrastructure tool used by the likes of IBM, LinkedIn and eBay.

Blogging platform Ghost said Sunday that an attacker had successfully infiltrated its Salt-based server infrastructure and deployed a crypto-mining virus.

“Our investigation indicates that a critical vulnerability in…

Interpol Leads Operation to Tackle Cryptojacker Infecting Over 20,000 Routers

International crime fighting agency Interpol has taken action to stem a plague of cryptocurrency mining malware afflicting computer routers across Asia.

According to a Wednesday blog postfrom TrendMicro, which assisted the operation, Interpol’s Global Complex for Innovation (IGCI) in Singapore led a five month effort to tackle the epidemic of the Coinhive cryptojacker which was installed by…

This Malware Has a Worrying Trick to Mine Monero on Cloud Servers

A recently observed form of malware uses a concerning new trick to avoid detection and mine cryptocurrency on cloud servers.

Two researchers, Xingyu Jin and Claud Xiao, from cybersecurity firm Palo Alto Networks, publisheda report on Thursday, saying that a nasty bit of software from bad actors dubbed the Rocke group is targeting public cloud infrastructure. Once downloaded, it takes…

Hackers Planting Cryptocurrency Mining Malware on Android Smartphones

Hackers have found a way to exploit loopholes in open Android Debug Bridge (ADB) ports, a client-server program used in the development of Android applications, to mine blockchain-based digital assets. Once a device gets infected, the bad actors can spread the malware to connected devices via Secure Socket Shell (SSH), according to a TrendMicro reportRead More

Novel Botnet Hunts Down and Destroys Crypto Mining Malware

Security researchers have discovered a new botnet that, rather than posing a threat, seems to be seeking out and destroying a type of crypto-mining malware.

Called Fbot, the botnet is a variant of one called Satori, which is in turn based on Mirai – a program normally used for DDoS attacks. Unusually, the DDoS module seems to have been deactivated and instead Fbot searches for devices infected…