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Cryptocurrency miner hits IoT devices, mostly affects Brazil and Russia!

  • Pradeep Kulkarni / 7 years
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According to a blogpost published on Aug 1, 2018, 200,000 routers in Brazil were compromised to deliver Cryptocurrency mining scripts to mine Monero (XMR) cryptocurrency. Hackers compromised the vulnerable MikroTik routers by injecting CoinHive scripts into the routers web pages in order to carry out the mass Cryptocurrency miner attack. The IDS/IPS research team at […]

The Curious Case of Upatre

  • Sakshat Karkare / 10 years
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  • 6 min read

What is Upatre? Upatre is a piece of malicious software that downloads and executes other malware. The name ‘Upatre’ comes from User Agent string “UPdATes downloadER” used by the malware. We have been observing Upatre infections since 2013 at the Quick Heal Threat Research lab. The curious thing here is that, attackers running Upatre campaign […]