Clipminer: Making millions off of malware. [Research Saturday]

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🗓️ 20 August 2022

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Summary

Dick O'Brien from Symantec, a part of Broadcom Software, joins Dave to discuss how the cyber-criminal operation, Clipminer Botnet, makes operators behind it at least $1.7 million. Symantec's research says "The malware being used, tracked as Trojan.Clipminer, has a number of similarities to another crypto-mining Trojan called KryptoCibule, suggesting it may be a copycat or evolution of that threat." Symantec determined that the malware has the ability to mine for cryptocurrency using compromised computers’ resources. They also share a way to protect against the cyber-criminal operation, as well as sharing some indicators you could be compromised. The research can be found here: Clipminer Botnet Makes Operators at Least $1.7 Million

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1:27.0	I'm Dave Bitner and this is our weekly conversation with researchers and analysts tracking
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1:39.0	Thanks for joining us. Yeah, it's not the usual sort of thing that we investigate, but it is kind of an interesting threat. The reason I say it's not the
1:55.0	usual sort of thing we investigate is because in the greater scheme of things it's
2:00.0	by no means the world's biggest cybercrime operation and I think that has helped it fly a little bit under the radar.
2:07.5	That's Dick O'Brien. He's a principal editor at Symantec. The research we're discussing today is titled,
2:13.7	Klimner Botnet makes operators at least 1.7 million dollars. Want to have your voice heard?
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