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Cryptominers

Hacked Website Threat Report 2019

January 28, 2020Rianna MacLeod

Hacked Website Threat Report – 2019

The threat landscape for website owners is constantly shifting on a regular basis — and it’s becoming increasingly more complex. As attackers continue to develop tools and find new vulnerabilities to massively exploit, our team works diligently around the clock to identify, analyze, and protect…

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Online Credit Card Theft - A Brief Overview of Online Fraud and Abuse

October 28, 2019Luke Leal

Fake French Police Sextortion Scam

There has been a noted increase in the number of sextortion scams during 2019. These scam campaigns are commonly distributed through email, but any method of digital communication can be…

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Backdoors in Malicious Plugins

October 16, 2019Krasimir Konov

Cryptominers & Backdoors Found in Fake Plugins

When cleaning websites, we regularly find phishing pages, malicious code injected into files, and SEO spam. However, over the past couple of months we’ve also noticed a considerable increase in…

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What is Cryptocurrency Mining Malware?

September 2, 2019Brian Bautista

What is Cryptocurrency Mining Malware?

Before we get into the details of “Cryptocurrency Mining Malware”, we need to understand first what cryptocurrency is and what miners are. What is Cryptocurrency? Cryptocurrency is best thought of…

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June 19, 2019Luke Leal

Cryptomining Dropper and Cronjob Creator

Recently, someone reached out to us about a malicious process they had discovered running on their web server. This process was maxing out the CPU, which is not unusual when…

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A Brief Overview of Online Fraud and Abuse

April 17, 2019John Castro

ThinkPHP 5.x Remote Code Execution

Earlier this year, we noticed an increase in attacks aiming at ThinkPHP, which is a PHP framework that is very popular in Asia. If you keep track of your site’s…

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Malware Campaigns Sharing Network Resources: r00ts.ninja

April 2, 2019Luke Leal

Malware Campaigns Sharing Network Resources: r00ts.ninja

We recently noticed an interesting example of network infrastructure resources being used over a period of time by more than one large scale malware campaign (e.g redirected traffic, cryptomining). This…

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Obfuscated JavaScript Cryptominer

October 9, 2018Samuel Odendaal

Obfuscated JavaScript Cryptominer

During an incident response investigation, we detected an interesting piece of heavily obfuscated JavaScript malware. Once decoded, we found out that cryptominers were running on visitor’s computers when they accessed our…

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Cryptominers, Variants, and Removal

August 2, 2018Tyler Lancy

Cryptominers: Binary-Process-Cron Variants and Methods of Removal

This post provides a brief overview of how to manually remove server-side cryptominers and other types of Binary-Process-Cron malware from a server. Unlike browser-based JavaScript cryptominers that have been injected…

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Labs Note

August 1, 2018Samuel Odendaal

Obfuscated JavaScript Crypto Miner

During an incident response investigation, we detected an interesting piece of heavily obfuscated JavaScript malware. Once decoded, Crypto Miners were ran on customers visiting the website. By looking at the…

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CoinImp

July 5, 2018Denis Sinegubko

CoinImp Cryptominer and Fully Qualified Domain Names

We are all familiar with the conventional domain name notation, where different levels are concatenated with the full stop character (period). E.g. “www.example.com”, where “www” is a subdomain, “example” is…

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