At the Black Hat 2014 conference in Las Vegas, Rob Ragan and Oscar Salazar, penetration testers from Bishop Fox, demonstrated a technique for cloud-based bitcoin mining that cost them exactly…nothing.

The malware takes aim at PostgreSQL database servers with never-before-seen techniques. An innovative Linux-based cryptocurrency mining botnet has been uncovered, which exploits a disputed PostgreSQL ...

A cryptocurrency-mining botnet known as Lemon Duck has been displaying increased activity since the end of August, researchers from Cisco's Talos Intelligence Group say, adding that while defenders ...

A botnet that's been infecting internet routers has a new target: machines mining the cryptocurrency Ethereum. Since Jan. 8, the botnet has been scanning the internet for Windows systems running the ...

Analysts from security firm Trend Micro said in a report today that they've spotted a malware botnet that collects and steals Docker and AWS credentials. Cyber attacks and malware are one of the ...

The botnet, named ' Vollgar ', breached the server with a password brute force attack targeting MS SQL, mined the virtual currency ' Vollar ', built a backdoor in the OS, and operated it remotely.

The RapperBot campaign is bringing in some fresh talent to its arsenal of malware beats, adding cryptomining capability to its existing distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) botnet malware in order to ...

A newly discovered Linux-based cryptocurrency mining botnet exploited a disputed remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in PostgreSQL – first disclosed in 2018 and initially assigned CVE-2019-9193 ...