In a joint cybersecurity advisory, two US federal agencies have revealed that an attacker sponsored by the Iranian government broke into…
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Denonia cryptominer is first malware to target AWS Lambda
Security researchers at Cado Security, a cybersecurity forensics company, recently discoveredthe first publicly-known malware targeting Lambda, the serverless computing platform of…
Cryptomining containers caught coining cryptocurrency covertly
In traditional software development, programmers code an application in one computing environment before deploying it to a similar, but often slightly…
Mac malware combines EmPyre backdoor and XMRig miner
Earlier this week, we discovered a new piece of Mac malware that is combining two different open-source tools—the EmPyre backdoor and…
A week in security (May 21 – May 27)
Last week we told you about a Mac cryptominer using XMRig, an overview of Dreamcast related scams, part 1 of decoding…
New Mac cryptominer uses XMRig
A new Mac cryptominer was discovered this week, after affected users saw their fans whirring out of control and a process…