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At a white elephant party in northern Colorado in December, a friend of mine was telling me that he’d borrowed against his children’s college funds to put money into three different...
Threat actors are exploiting a recently patched vulnerability in Oracle WebLogic Server to infect systems with crypto-currency mining malware, FireEye reports. read more
The National Academies has just published "Decrypting the Encryption Debate: A Framework for Decision Makers." It looks really good, although I have not read it yet. Not much news or analysis yet....
On Sunday, over 4,200 websites around the world started hijacking visitors’ browsers to mine the Monero crypto currency. The attack The problem was first noticed and partly documented by security...
Hacked Script Infects Several Government Sites with Cryptominer read more
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: When crypto-mining malware hits a SCADA network Radiflow has recently discovered Monero-mining malware on five servers...
Stealthy crypto-mining is on track to surpass ransomware as cybercriminals’ most favorite money-making option, and companies with computers and servers that run all day and night long are the...
A new crypto-mining botnet has been growing and targeting Android devices with an open ADB port, Qihoo 360's NetLab researchers reveal. read more
Software download site/aggregator MacUpdate has been spotted delivering a new Mac crypto miner to users. A new Mac cryptominer was being distributed from hacked MacUpdate pages yesterday,...
The botnet uses port scanning code from Mirai, a first for Android-related attacks, according to researchers.