Hello, welcome to the Monday, December 3, 2018 edition of the Sandcent Storm Center's Stormcast. My name is Johannes Ulrich, and today I'm quoting from Jacksonville, Florida.

Checkpoint is writing about a recent crypto coin miner that they came across, they're calling King Miner. Now, King Miner has been

around for a while, but it's one of those CryptoCoin Miners that keeps evolving in this

latest version. They cleaned, modified, somewhat the configuration file for it. This latest

version will also add a number of register keys with the value test in it.

Based on the write-up by checkpoint, you're not really clear what this is about, but it could be

sort of a check whether or not it's already running here. And of course, one countermeasure that

people sometimes take is that they pre-create these register keys, sometimes cause of immunizing

the system to infection, and of course, malware as a result is then going to change these names

and values from time to time in order to evade these inoculations.

But in general, I think what we're seeing here is that these

crypto coin miners they keep evolving. Yes, cryptocurrencies are decreasing in value,

but they're not cheap enough where there's no point in mining them as long as

you don't pay for the power and hardware. Now the next story isn't really about a product that you probably have in your network.

It's a fairly high-end oscilloscope made by Sikland that does suffer from vulnerabilities.

Now, the reason I mention this here is this is sort of a story that's close to my heart from way back over a decade ago

in my physics days or so when I started to observe how some high-end oscilloscopes back then

like tectronics and such really ran windows and usually a server version of windows on the

back end and obscured the fact with sort of your usual

buttons and dials that you're used to from an oscilloscope.

The reason these vulnerabilities in measurement equipment like this are so critical is that

this high-end equipment you most often find in your most secretive research labs,

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