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The botnet weaponized bitcoin’s blockchain, according to Chainalysis, which said it helped Google’s investigation. By embedding command-and-control server addresses in the blockchain, and then having the botnet turn to that data whenever an infected server was shuttered, it stays a step ahead of the cybersecurity whack-a-mole. Source
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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 Mitiga revealed in a blog post
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The Blue Mockingbird malware gang has infected more than 1000 business systems with Monero mining malware since December 2019.The global scale of the hacker group’s operations was revealed by cloud security firm Red Canary on May 26.The report outlined the group’s methodology. The malware attacks servers running ASP.NET applications and
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The novel coronavirus has started to affect crypto communities, specifically that of Ethereum. After a number of ETH-related events took place in Europe earlier this month, two individuals have announced that they have contracted COVID-19, the illness that is caused by the novel coronavirus that originated in China late last
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While the stock market craters, Fed funds futures markets now forecast a 96% chance of a Fed rate cut in March. Goldman Sachs expects three rate cuts from March through June. There’s also chatter about an emergency inter-meeting rate cut any day now. But other analysts say the Federal
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Iran’s deputy health minister has been infected with coronavirus. The news comes an hour after the nation’s President asked citizens to not panic about the epidemic. Experts believe the number of cases in Iran to be much higher. Iran’s Fars news agency has reported that the nation’s deputy health
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Evidence suggests that crematoriums are running 24×7 and burning thousands of infected dead bodies in a day. Data has suggested a massive amount of sulfur dioxide is being released into the air. Sulfur concentration is especially high around Wuhan and Chongquing, the cities most affected by the Wuhan coronavirus. The massive release
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The Microsoft Defender ATP research team shares insights on a new cryptocurrency-stealing malware variant that has infected close to 80,000 computers.On Nov. 26, Microsoft security analysts revealed that the malware, called Dexphot, had already infected close to 80,000 devices since October 2018, reaching its peak in the month of
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A compromised version of the Tor browser has targeted Russian-speaking users, spied on them while they were roaming the dark web, and stole their Bitcoin(BTC)trade funds as they were attempting to purchase with BTC on dark web markets.The infected Tor browser reportedly switched the Bitcoin address to which users were
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A Cryptojacking code was found in 11 open-source code libraries written in Ruby, which have been downloaded thousands of times.Industry news outlet Decrypt reported on Aug. 21 that cryptojacking code has been added to 11 open-source Ruby libraries distributed on the RubyGems platform. Per the report, the infected libraries
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