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Category: Endpoint Security

Rust-Based P2PInfect Botnet Evolves with Miner and Ransomware Payloads

Rust-Based P2PInfect Botnet Evolves with Miner and Ransomware Payloads

The peer-to-peer malware botnet known as P2PInfect has been found targeting misconfigured Redis servers with ransomware and cryptocurrency miners. The development marks the threat’s transition from what appeared to be a dormant botnet with unclear motives to a financially motivated operation. “With its latest updates to the crypto miner, ransomware payload, and rootkit elements, it demonstrates the

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Commando Cat Cryptojacking Attacks Target Misconfigured Docker Instances

Commando Cat Cryptojacking Attacks Target Misconfigured Docker Instances

The threat actor known as Commando Cat has been linked to an ongoing cryptojacking attack campaign that leverages poorly secured Docker instances to deploy cryptocurrency miners for financial gain. “The attackers used the cmd.cat/chattr docker image container that retrieves the payload from their own command-and-control (C&C) infrastructure,” Trend Micro researchers Sunil Bharti and Shubham Singh said in a Thursday

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Researchers Uncover Active Exploitation of WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Cybersecurity researchers have warned that multiple high-severity security vulnerabilities in WordPress plugins are being actively exploited by threat actors to create rogue administrator accounts for follow-on exploitation. “These vulnerabilities are found in various WordPress plugins and are prone to unauthenticated stored cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks due to inadequate input sanitization and output escaping, making it

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Update Chrome Browser Now: 4th Zero-Day Exploit Discovered in May 2024

Update Chrome Browser Now: 4th Zero-Day Exploit Discovered in May 2024

Google on Thursday rolled out fixes to address a high-severity security flaw in its Chrome browser that it said has been exploited in the wild. Assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2024-5274, the vulnerability relates to a type confusion bug in the V8 JavaScript and WebAssembly engine. It was reported by Clément Lecigne of Google’s Threat Analysis Group

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