Cybersecurity researchers have identified a new attack that exploits misconfigurations in Apache Hadoop and Flink to deploy cryptocurrency miners within targeted environments.
“This attack is particularly intriguing due to the attacker’s use of packers and rootkits to conceal the malware,” Aqua security researchers Nitzan Yaakov and Assaf Morag said in an analysis published earlier

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Patches will be available in late January and February, but until then, customers must take mitigation measures.

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The Chinese state-sponsored APT has compromised as many as 30% of Cisco legacy routers on a SOHO botnet that multiple threat groups use.

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Danish energy sector attacks attributed to Russia’s Sandworm APT turn out to be the work of a new concern: cyber opportunists.

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Crypto hacks on Mandiant and SEC X accounts are the predictable result of the social media platform’s upcharge for basic cybersecurity protections, experts say.

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