The Pirate Bay, the world’s largest BitTorrent indexer, is a massive online source for digital content– movies, games and software—and is among the top 100 most popular websites globally, according to Alexa. No stranger to controversy for its role in illegal downloads, a few weeks ago it was discovered that The Pirate Bay operators have begun using the website users’ computer resources to mine the Monero...
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Almost the complete Master File Table (MFT) can be decrypted. In this post, we describe our approach to collect more keystream bytes, which eventually leads to decrypt the complete disk. Technical Analysis Encryption of Files MFT records already store the content of a file, if the file is at most 900 bytes in size. This means that the tool decryptPetya.py from our first blog post can already...
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The Anti-Phishing Working Group’s latest report found upticks in phishing attacks against companies in the Logistics & Shipping as well Cloud Storage & File Hosting sectors, mounted by cyber gangs against the accounts of both individuals and enterprises. Once they steal usernames and passwords, the criminals can then steal not only funds, but also use services to spend spam mail, order goods for resale, and other...
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Systems Affected Domain Controllers File Servers Email Servers Overview This joint Technical Alert (TA) is the result of analytic efforts between the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). This alert provides information on advanced persistent threat (APT) actions targeting government entities and organizations in the energy, nuclear, water, aviation, and critical manufacturing sectors. Working with U.S. and international partners,...
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Cryptocurrencies have taken the world by storm. From the biggest player Bitcoin to newcomers such as Monero and Ethereum, cryptocurrency mining has become a hot industry due in part to powerful, dedicated mining hardware or by utilizing graphics cards’ parallel computing power. Recently, browser coin mining has taken off, for a lot of different reasons. Although the computing power per instance is much less than...
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