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Poisoned peer-to-peer app kicked off Dofoil coin miner outbreak

March 13, 2018 admin behavior monitoring, code injection, CoinMiner, cryptocurrency mining, cybersecurity, Electroneum, machine learning, MediaGet, Namecoin, smoke loader, Windows 10, Windows 10 S, Windows Defender ATP, Windows Defender AV

Credit to Author: Windows Defender Research| Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 22:27:06 +0000

On March 7, we reported that a massive Dofoil campaign attempted to install malicious cryptocurrency miners on hundreds of thousands of computers. Windows Defender Antivirus, with its behavior monitoring, machine learning technologies, and layered approach to security detected and blocked the attack within milliseconds.Windows 10 S, a special configuration of Windows 10 providing Microsoft-verified security,

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RIG exploit kit campaign gets deep into crypto craze

January 9, 2018 admin bitcoin, Bytecoin, cryptocurrency, cryptominers, cryptomining, drive-by downloads, Drive-by mining, Electroneum, exploit kits, malvertising, malware, monero, Ngay, RIG EK, Threat analysis

Credit to Author: Jérôme Segura| Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2018 17:11:16 +0000

We take a look at a prolific campaign that is focused on the distribution of coin miners via drive-by download attacks. We started to notice larger-than-usual payloads from the RIG exploit kit around November 2017, a trend that has continued more recently via a campaign dubbed Ngay.

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