Malicious PyPI packages drop ransomware, fileless malware
In this Help Net Security video, Ax Sharma, Senior Security Researcher at Sonatype, discusses newly found PyPI packages that pack ransomware, and another package that appears …
Tor2Mine cryptominer has evolved: Just patching and cleaning the system won’t help
Sophos released new findings on the Tor2Mine cryptominer, that show how the miner evades detection, spreads automatically through a target network and is increasingly harder …
Monero-mining botnet targets orgs through recent MS Exchange vulnerabilities
The recent Microsoft Exchange Server vulnerabilities might have initially been exploited by a government-backed APT group, but cybercriminals soon followed suit, using them to …
New AI algorithm to detect cryptocurrency miners as they steal power
Computer scientists have developed a new artificial intelligence (AI) system that may be able to identify malicious codes that hijack supercomputers to mine for cryptocurrency …
Are your MS SQL servers part of a cryptomining botnet? Check now!
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Monero Project site compromised, served malware-infected binaries
The official website of the Monero Project has been compromised to serve a malware-infected version of the CLI (command-line interface) wallet. The malicious file was …
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