"A giant botnet is forcing Windows servers to mine cryptocurrency The Smominru miner has infected at least half a million machines - mostly consisting of Windows servers - and spreads via the EternalBlue exploit... The Smominru miner botnet turns infected machines into miners of the Monero cryptocurrency and is believed to have made its owners around $3.6 million since it started operating in May 2017 - about a month after EternalBlue leaked and around the same time as the WannaCry attack..." http://www.zdnet.com/article/a-giant-botnet-is-forcing-windows-servers-to-mine-cryptocurrency/
Hacker Group Makes $3 Million by Installing Monero Miners on Jenkins Servers http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/69232/malware/jenkinsminer-targets-jenkins-servers.html
Coverity Scan code checker's systems crypto-jacked to run cheeky mining op https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/03/19/coverity_scan_cryptomining/
"Cryptomining malware targets unpatched servers Cybercriminals are increasingly targeting unpatched server vulnerabilities to infect machines with cryptomining malware, according to a new report. The study from Check Point Software Technologies sees cryptomining malware dominate Check Point’s Top Ten Most Wanted Malware Index, the Coinhive variant retains the top spot with a global reach of 16 percent. Cryptoloot -- another crypto-mining malware -- is close behind with a global reach of 14 percent, while the Roughted malvertising malware came in third (11 percent). Two unpatched server vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (CVE-2017-7269) and Oracle Web Logic (CVE-2017-10271) are being targeted in order to illicitly mine cryptocurrency. Globally, 46 percent of the world's organizations have been targeted for the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 vulnerability, while the Oracle Web Logic vulnerability was close behind, targeting 40 percent of organizations across the world. Interestingly, old-fashioned SQL injection attacks remained the third most popular vulnerability..." https://betanews.com/2018/05/14/cry...ign=Feed - bn - BetaNews Latest News Articles
