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Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a new cryptojacking campaign targeting the Docker Engine API with the goal of co-opting the instances to join a malicious Docker Swarm controlled by the...
What researchers are calling a "Horde" of miner bots and backdoors are using the Log4Shell bug to take over vulnerable VMware Horizon servers, with threat actors still actively waging some attacks. On Tuesday, Sophos reported that the remote code execution Log4j vulnerability in the ubiquitous Java logging library is under active attack, "Particularly among cryptocurrency mining bots." Besides cryptominers, attackers are also prying open Log4Shell to deliver backdoors that Sophos believes are initial access brokers that could lay the groundwork for later ransomware infections.
A Windows living-off-the-land binary known as Regsvr32 is seeing a big uptick in abuse of late, researchers are warning, mainly spreading trojans like Lokibot and Qbot. In this case, Regsvr32 is aMicrosoft-signed command line utility in Windows that allows users to register and unregister libraries.
In the Department of Defense the display reinvigorated interest in counter-swarm tactics research, for drones and swarming tactics can have applications in all warfighting domains. It enables Kaminer's group to establish a multi-university, multi-year effort to develop an operational planning simulation for defense against an attacking drone swarm.
The Tor Project has confirmed someone, or some group, is in control of a large number of Bitcoin-snaffling exit nodes in its anonymizing network, and it's battling to boot them off. One observer reckons more than 23 per cent of the entire Tor network's exit capacity was under the command of one miscreant, or one group of miscreants, at one point in May, with the end goal being the theft of people's cryptocurrency.
Hackers are crawling all over the US Department of Defense's websites. Four years after it first invited white hat hackers to start hacking its systems, the Pentagon continues asking them to do their worst - and a report released this week says that they're submitting more vulnerability reports than ever.
MoD offshoot names winners who dipped into £2m anti-drone ideas pot o' gold The British government has funded 18 anti-drone projects as part of its £2m push to stop a repeat of the Gatwick drone...
It's about fighting fires, not starting them, say defence bods The British military has commissioned a hackathon to develop drone swarms – while claiming that it's definitely not about developing...
Swarm technology may be a game changer for the bad guys if organizations don’t change their tactics.
Botnets fused with artificial intelligence are decentralized and self-organized systems, capable of working together toward a common goal – attacking networks.