Tara Seals The volume of crypto-mining transactions has grown, spiking almost 500% on corporate networks. Cybersecurity firm Zscaler has blocked more than 2.5 billion crypto-mining attempts in the last six months.…
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OMG! Mirai Variant Creates Proxy Servers
Tara Seals Yet another new Mirai variant has reared its head, aimed at turning internet of things (IoT) devices into proxy servers. The FortiGuard Labs team encountered the botnet, which…
Tesla investigates claims of crypto-currency hack
Tesla has confirmed that its cloud computing platform has been compromised by hackers. RedLock, the company that alerted it to the breach, believes the attackers may have done this to…
Coinhive Crypto-Miner Now Affecting a Quarter of the World's Organizations
Tara Seals Crypto-mining malware has continued to grow globally, with 23% of organizations worldwide affected by the Coinhive variant during January. That’s according to Check Point’s Global Threat Impact Index,…
Bogus hack apps hack users back for cryptocash
by Nathan Collier Recently, we discovered a gold…er…APK mine of fake hacking apps. The “legitimate” versions of hack apps are intended to hack other apps in order to get something for free. Although…
Sewage plant 'hacked' to craft crypto-coins
Mining Monero on SCADA networks? Why can’t you kids be normal and just DDoS By Iain Thomson Updated Infosec bods say they have uncovered what’s thought to be the first…