SOTI 2018 - Intro

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XMR Cryptomining Targetng X86/I686 Systems
Larry Cashdollar

We investigate a coin-mining malware that made a jump from ARM-powered IoT devices to Intel systems.

Summer Phishing Scams Targeting Vacation Hotspotss
Or Katz

Our Research Team analyzes patterns and trends in a phishing attack campaign targeting vacationers.

Criminals Using Targeted Remote File Inclusion Attacks in Phishing Campaigns
Larry Cashdollar

We look at how investigating RFI vulnerability attacks uncovered a campaign to deploy phishing kits.

Adversarial DGA - Is It Out There?
Asif Nadler

We describe three Adversarial DGA attacks that were published recently, and a question whether they are actually used by attackers.

Pykspa v2 DGA Updated to Become Selective
Lior Lahav

Akamai researchers track and analyze recent changes to the Pykspa v2 domain generation algorithm (DGA) and how they have made it more selective.

SIRT Advisory: Silexbot Bricking Systems With Known Default Login Credentials
Larry Cashdollar

We look at a new bot using known default credentials for IoT devices to login and kill the system.

Phishing Analytics - Tracking A Campaign
Or Katz

We look at analytics and correlate various stats to better understand how phishing campaigns work from within.

CloudTest Vulnerability (CVE-2019-11011)
Akamai Threat Research Team

A new version of CloudTest is available that addresses a critical security vulnerability.

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