Tag: Cryptojacking
While investigating a recent threat campaign, F5 researchers encountered a strange behaviour where malicious requests were originating from legitimate Googlebot servers. This relatively infrequent behavior could potentially have serious consequences in environments where the trust level given to Googlebot influences an organization’s security decisions. The Trust Paradox Google’s official support site advises to “make sure…
Read MoreRecently, threat researchers from F5 Networks spotted a new campaign targeting Elasticsearch systems. It leverages an exploit from 2014 to spread several new malwares designed to deploy an XMR (Monero) mining operation. The campaign exploits a five-year-old vulnerability (CVE-2014-3120) in Elasticsearch systems running on both Windows and Linux platforms to mine XMR cryptocurrency. On Linux,…
Read MoreAdvanced Attackers Like criminal actors, state-sponsored actors or APTs often initiate their illicit access campaigns with spear phishing. However, advanced actors have more time and resources on their hands, and can fashion something of value even from apparently useless data. Large caches of innocuous information, such as email addresses, can be used to look for…
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