vulnerabilities

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

Pradeep Kulkarni / 7 years
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3 min read

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 […]

Chinese, Russian hackers counting on Apache Struts vulnerabilities – a report by Quick Heal Security Labs

Sameer Patil / 8 years
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5 min read

Apache Struts is an open-source CMS based on MVC framework for developing Java EE Web Applications. Apache Struts has been widely used by many Fortune 100 companies and government agencies over the years for developing web applications. But, websites built using a CMS constantly need to upgrade the CMS versions in their web application servers, because vulnerabilities in the CMS framework directly […]

Massive campaign delivering Monero Miner via compromised websites – an analysis by Quick Heal Security Labs

Pradeep Kulkarni / 8 years
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4 min read

Ransomware outbreaks have been on the rise for quite some time now but suddenly we are observing a change in this trend. Seems like the rise observed in cryptocurrency valuations especially for Bitcoins is making attackers to go after cryptocurrency mining. Cryptocurrency miner malware have become hot attack vectors for cybercriminals. By looking at the […]

Anatomy of Flash Exploit (CVE-2015-8651) integrated into Rig Exploit Kit

Pavankumar Chaudhari / 9 years
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5 min read

We all know how the infamous RIG Exploit Kit have been used to infect the end users. We are seeing a constant spike in the usage of the RIG Exploit Kit by malware actors to spread malware. Its use has been noticed in different campaigns such as EITest, pseudoDarkleech, and AFRAIDGATE. The RIG Exploit Kit […]

Latest IT Security News and Updates from Last Week

Sakshat Karkare / 12 years
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2 min read

Google Sleeps for 5 minutes, 40% of Internet Traffic Goes Kaput Google is not called the Big G for nothing. Google and all of its services suffered a downtime for up to five minutes last Friday. This caused global Internet traffic to drop by about 40%. It is estimated that this drop caused the company […]