Here you will find all the articles with the tag: cryptojacking.
Container security firm Sysdig introduced ML-powered cloud detection to help businesses deal with cryptojacking threats. Sysdig announced its latest machine-learning-backed response capability and cloud detection that can aid companies in dealing with various cryptojacking threats and vulnerabil... Read more
2 years ago
The number of malware attacks rose to 2.8 billion in the past six months. Ransomware attacks on European organizations grew while the United States faced less. SonicWall examined the state of malware between January 2022 and June 2022. The security company used 1.1 million seniors in 215 countri... Read more
2 years ago
A record increase in cryptojacking, hackers-for-hire on the rise and a possible solution to the ransomware problem. We share a sampling from Threat Landscape 2021, ENISA's annual cybersecurity report. ENISA (European Network and Information Security Agency) identifies ransomware as the biggest t... Read more
2 years ago
A coalition of NATO member states, the European Union, Australia, New Zealand, and Japan are coming together to reckon with the problem of Chinese state-sponsored hacks. The first of many actions the new joint effort aims to take includes publicly blaming China’s Ministry of State Security (MS... Read more
3 years ago
Kubernetes clusters used for cryptocurrency mining are being targeted in the wild by a new form of malware. Details of this were released by security researchers at Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42. The malware has been named Hildegard and was first detected in January. It is believed that the TeamTN... Read more
3 years ago
A new investigation by security company Positive Technologies shows that targeted cyber attacks are increasingly taking place with the aim of targeting governments. The research report investigated cyber attacks in the second quarter of 2019. Targeted cyber attacks are carefully prepared in advan... Read more
5 years ago
Hackers have successfully attacked hundreds of unpatched Docker hosts. The cybercriminals were able to use the hosts to run cryptomining scripts. That puts security firm Imperva in a new report, reports Silicon Angle. The new wave of attacks on Docker follows the announcement of a vulnerability in F... Read more
5 years ago
Cryptojacking attacks, in which hackers steal processor power from victims to generate cryptic currency, increased by 450 percent last year. This is shown by new research from IBM X-Force, the research bureau of IBM. Ransomware attacks actually decreased in 2018. Wendi Whitmore, the head of the IBM... Read more
5 years ago
Hackers often use legitimate websites like GitHub and Dropbox to spread cryptographic currency denial malware. This is apparent from new research by academics from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and King's College London. That's what The Next Web says. Cryptojackers build special malware dropp... Read more
5 years ago
Palo Alto Networks warns of a new malware campaign that uses a seemingly legitimate update to Adobe Flash for cryptojacking. The campaign was supposed to have been going on at least since August and had a significant peak in activity in September. Researchers at Palo Alto found the threat during a s... Read more
6 years ago
