cryptomining malware

Pierluigi Paganini April 27, 2025
Storm-1977 targets education sector with password spraying, Microsoft warns

Microsoft warns that threat actor Storm-1977 is behind password spraying attacks against cloud tenants in the education sector. Over the past year, Microsoft Threat Intelligence researchers observed a threat actor, tracked as Storm-1977, using AzureChecker.exe to launch password spray attacks against cloud tenants in the education sector. AzureChecker.exe connected to sac-auth[.]nodefunction[.]vip to download AES-encrypted data, which, […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 13, 2018
Hackers in the Russian underground exploited a Telegram Zero-Day vulnerability to deliver malware

Security researcher Alexey Firsh at Kaspersky Lab last discovered a Telegram zero-day in the desktop Windows version that was exploited in attacks in the wild. Security researcher Alexey Firsh at Kaspersky Lab last discovered a zero-day vulnerability in the desktop Windows version of the popular Telegram instant messaging app. The bad news is that the […]

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