Claud Xiao, Author at Unit42

Cryptojacking is conceptually illustrated here. The category includes PGMiner, a new cryptocurrency mining botnet delivered via PostgreSQL.

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PGMiner: New Cryptocurrency Mining Botnet Delivered via PostgreSQL

By Xiao Zhang, Yang Ji, Jim Fitzgerald, Yue Chen and Claud Xiao
December 10, 2020 at 6:00 AM

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Malware Used by Rocke Group Evolves to Evade Detection by Cloud Security Products

By Xingyu Jin and Claud Xiao
January 17, 2019 at 6:00 AM

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Xbash Combines Botnet, Ransomware, Coinmining in Worm that Targets Linux and Windows

By Claud Xiao, Cong Zheng and Xingyu Jin
September 17, 2018 at 5:00 AM

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IoT Malware Evolves to Harvest Bots by Exploiting a Zero-day Home Router Vulnerability

By Cong Zheng, Claud Xiao and Yanhui Jia
January 11, 2018 at 1:00 PM

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New IoT/Linux Malware Targets DVRs, Forms Botnet

By Claud Xiao and Cong Zheng
April 6, 2017 at 1:00 PM

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DualToy: New Windows Trojan Sideloads Risky Apps to Android and iOS Devices

By Claud Xiao
September 13, 2016 at 5:00 AM

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AceDeceiver: First iOS Trojan Exploiting Apple DRM Design Flaws to Infect Any iOS Device

By Claud Xiao
March 16, 2016 at 5:00 AM

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New OS X Ransomware KeRanger Infected Transmission BitTorrent Client Installer

By Claud Xiao
March 6, 2016 at 11:30 AM

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Pirated iOS App Store’s Client Successfully Evaded Apple iOS Code Review

By Claud Xiao
February 21, 2016 at 5:00 PM

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New Android Trojan “Xbot” Phishes Credit Cards and Bank Accounts, Encrypts Devices for Ransom

By Cong Zheng, Claud Xiao and Zhi Xu
February 18, 2016 at 4:00 PM

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iOS Trojan “TinyV” Attacks Jailbroken Devices

By Claud Xiao
December 15, 2015 at 4:45 PM

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BackStab: Mobile Backup Data Under Attack from Malware

By Claud Xiao
December 7, 2015 at 5:00 AM

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Rootnik Android Trojan Abuses Commercial Rooting Tool and Steals Private Information

By Wenjun Hu, Claud Xiao and Zhi Xu
December 4, 2015 at 3:00 PM

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Chinese Taomike Monetization Library Steals SMS Messages

By Zhi Xu and Claud Xiao
October 21, 2015 at 3:45 PM

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YiSpecter: First iOS Malware That Attacks Non-jailbroken Apple iOS Devices by Abusing Private APIs

By Claud Xiao
October 4, 2015 at 6:00 PM

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