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Cybersecurity researchers have detailed two novel methods that can be used to disrupt cryptocurrency mining botnets. The methods take advantage of the design of various common mining topologies in order to shut down the mining process, Akamai said in a new report published today. “We developed two techniques by leveraging the mining topologies and pool…

The intelligence-gathering cyber campaign introduces the novel HazyBeacon backdoor and uses legitimate cloud communication channels for command-and-control (C2) and exfiltration to hide its malicious activities.

Unidentified threat actors have been observed targeting publicly exposed Microsoft Exchange servers to inject malicious code into the login pages that harvest their credentials. Positive Technologies, in a new analysis published last week, said it identified two different kinds of keylogger code written in JavaScript on the Outlook login page – Those that save collected…

The deal, which builds on LevelBlue’s recent acquisition of Trustwave and Aon, aims to provide customers with a broad portfolio of extended detection and response (XDR), managed detection and response (MDR), and forensic services.

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Unpatched TP-Link Archer routers have become the target of a new botnet campaign dubbed Ballista, according to new findings from the Cato CTRL team. “The botnet exploits a remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in TP-Link Archer routers (CVE-2023-1389) to spread itself automatically over the Internet,” security researchers Ofek Vardi and Matan Mittelman said in a…