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Multi-vector attacks target cloud-hosted technologies

24

Jan

2019

The push to move everything into the cloud over the past several years has generated a large number of misconfigured and exposed deployments of various software stacks. This has attracted sophisticated attacks that destroy data or abuse server resources for cryptocurrency mining. In a new report released today, security researchers from Securonix warn of an […]

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Hacker adds malicious bitcoin-stealing code to popular JavaScript library

27

Nov

2018

Tired of maintaining code that was written to be freely distributed, an “unrepentant module giver awayer” (aka developer) handed it over after GitHub dev “right9control” volunteered to take over the popular JavaScript library. The library Event-Stream, written in Node.js, has over 2 million downloads per week. The library, which was listed in NPM’s repository, was […]

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Creator of cryptocurrency miner Coinhive reveals his identity

27

Mar

2018

“Monetize your business with your users’ CPU power.” That’s the alluring promise to make a fortune overnight through crypto-mining, the practice of using computing power to generate cryptocurrency.

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