Pierluigi Paganini
August 31, 2017
The popular Dutch security researcher Victor Gevers has discovered thousands of Bitcoin miners left exposed on the Internet. The popular security researcher Victor Gevers, the founder of the GDI Foundation, has discovered 2,893 Bitcoin miners left exposed on the Internet. I see about 2,893 Chinese Bitcoin "Thunder mining machines" online which are accessible via telnet […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 08, 2017
Security researchers at Dr. Web discovered two new Linux Malware, one of them mines for cryptocurrency using Raspberry Pi Devices. Malware researchers at the Russian antivirus maker Dr.Web have discovered a new Linux trojan, tracked as Kinux.MulDrop.14, that is infecting Raspberry Pi devices with the purpose of mining cryptocurrency. According to the Russian antivirus maker Dr.Web, the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 16, 2016
A team of Illinois-based scientists have conducted a research to improve the Bitcoin mining process by 30 percent. Bitcoin mining is becoming a process even more costly in terms of computational resources, but a team of Illinois-based researchers have conducted a study to speed up this process. The group of scientists led by Indian Scientist […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 16, 2016
Mike Hearn explains that the fundamentals are broken and the price the long term trend should probably be downwards. Mike Hearn, a senior Bitcoin developer explained the failure of the Bitcoin cryptocurrency as experiment and announced he has stopped working on it and sold his coins. Hearn blamed the community for the failure, according to the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 16, 2014
Trustwave has detected a new series of attacks on servers worldwide based on the exploitation of old CGI-PHP vulnerability to spread BoSSaBoTv2 botnet. It was 2012 when security experts discovered a security flaw (CVE-2012-1823) in some PHP builds that could be exploited by a threat actor to remotely execute commands on the affected server, if PHP was […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 28, 2014
Two security experts will present at the next BlackHat conference how to exploit cloud services to build Money-Mining Botnet. Cloud computing is becoming the paradigm most abused by cybercrime, cloud architectures represent privileged targets of cyber criminals that desire to steal data they contain or to abuse their resources to conduct cyber attacks. Two researchers, Rob […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 21, 2014
Hundreds of Facebook users from Portugal, Belgium, India, Romania, Serbia and other countries got infected with a new Bitcoin mining Trojan. Social media represents a privileged target for cybercrime, the last threat that is menacing Facebook users is a new malicious campaign which spread a Trojan with mining capabilities. Security Expert at Bitdefender firm discovered that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 27, 2013
Atrax, yet another commercial crimekit on the black market, a malware able to exploit Tor and that implements numerous features including Bitcoin mining. Atrax is the name of the last crimekit that is sold in the underground market, its particularity is the capability to exploit Tor networks to communicate with Command & Control infrastructure. Jonas […]
