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Interpol announced on Wednesday that it has coordinated an international operation aimed at removing illegally installed cryptocurrency miners from routers located in Southeast Asia. The operation was launched in June 2019 and participants worked over a five-month period to identify compromised routers, alert victims, and install patches that would prevent cybercriminals from controlling the devices.

For any business, privacy and security are a constant concern. The variety and velocity of attacks seeking to infiltrate corporate systems and steal vital business and customer information seem...

Security researchers have discovered a cryptojacking worm that propagates using containers in the Docker Engine (Community Edition) and has spread to more than 2,000 vulnerable Docker hosts. “The...

This is the first time that a cryptojacking attack has been observed on Docker.

Using Docker Containers to Spread Worm Is a New, Untested Technique, Researchers SayAttackers are using Docker containers to spread a cryptojacking worm in a campaign dubbed "Graboid," according...

The former software engineer allegedly created scanners to look for misconfigured servers rented from a cloud computing company.

Former Amazon employee Paige Thompson, who was arrested last month in relation to the Capital One data breach, has been accused of hacking not only the U.S. credit card issuer, but also more than...

You might also be slurping Chinese malware Palo Alto Networks has spotted a new cryptomining malware technique that not only wipes out any other miners present on the target machine but uses...

In this webinar, Ethan Hansen, Security Analyst for Threat Stack’s Cloud Security Operations Program, will discuss recently observed Docker exploit attempts from the field, where attackers were...

Hackers are going back to the tried-and-true method of simply demanding ransoms be paid in cryptocurrencies, rather than trying to covertly mine them.