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.

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 ...

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 ...