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Hundreds of unprotected Kubernetes clusters discovered
Hundreds of unprotected Kubernetes clusters discovered

Over 350 compromised enterprise and individual Kubernetes clusters are due to two misconfigurations. A cloud native security company recently demonstrated this. Aqua Security identified Kubernetes clusters from more than 350 organizations, open source projects and individuals that were openly accessible and unprotected. This was the result of several months of research by Aqua's “Nautilus” research team. A notable subset of clusters were associated with large conglomerates and Fortune 500 companies. At least 60 percent of these clusters were attacked and had an active campaign with deployed malware and backdoors. The security holes were due to two misconfigurations...

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Constant threat of multi-malware attacks
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Since April 2023, there have been over 10.000 multi-malware attacks from backdoors, keyloggers and miners on more than 200 companies. In April 2023, the FBI reported on a multi-malware campaign in which cybercriminals attacked companies with miners, keyloggers and backdoors. Kaspersky experts further analyzed the campaign and found that it is still active. The cyberattacks identified by Kaspersky occurred between May and October of this year and primarily targeted government agencies, farms, and wholesale and retail companies. According to Kaspersky telemetry, the more than 10.000 attacks affected over 200 users, the majority...

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230 percent more malicious crypto miners
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In the third quarter of 2022, Kaspersky experts recorded a sharp increase in crypto miner variants — a growth of over 230 percent. This is shown by the report “The state of cryptojacking in 2022”. Almost every sixth attack via a vulnerability is accompanied by a miner infection. The number of crypto miners is currently over 150.000 and is three times as high as in the third quarter of 2021. Cyber ​​criminals are currently "earning" an average income of around 1.500 US dollars per month; in one case, a wallet was identified where a $40.500 (2 BTC) transaction…

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Security nuisance: Norton 360 integrates crypto miners
Security nuisance: Norton 360 integrates crypto miners

As the technology magazine T3N reports, security software provider Nortonlifelock has built a crypto miner into its Norton 360 security program. Users can volunteer to mine and share the profit with Nortonlifelock. However, users complain in the Norton forum about a forced installation. Security software should actually protect against crypto miners. Nortonlifelock now wants to turn it into an officially legal business. Norton already activated a crypto mining module for a small group of users in the summer of 2021. The users mine Ethereum with their computer and, if successful, give it to Nortonlifelock. The user should then issue a credit ...

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Attackers use Exchange vulnerability for crypto miners
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Sophos Labs has identified an attacker using an Exchange vulnerability for cryptomining: “Admins should scan the Exchange server for web shells and monitor servers for unusual processes that appear to appear out of nowhere. High processor usage by an unknown program could be a sign of crypto mining activity or ransomware,” said Andrew Brandt, Principal Threat Researcher at Sophos. The well-known, recent problems relating to the Microsoft Exchange Server vulnerabilities are far from over: Even after the security patches of March 2nd and 9th, new attackers are still using the exploit for their attacks...

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DDoS attacks on the decline - crypto mining on the rise
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It seems to be a question of profit: DDoS attacks slightly down in the fourth quarter of 2020 - crypto mining increases The DDoS attacks registered by Kaspersky DDoS Prevention rose slightly in the fourth quarter of 2020 compared to the previous year. Compared to the third quarter, however, they fell by 31 percent. This development is related to the growing interest in crypto mining. Q4 2020: Many DDoS attacks on educational institutions As more time was spent on the Internet in the course of 2020, the number of DDoS attacks (Distributed Denial of Service) also rose. The last quarter ...

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