Threat Source newsletter for July 23, 2020

Newsletter compiled by Jon Munshaw.Good afternoon, Talos readers.While ransomware attacks continue to hog all the headlines, cryptocurrency miners are still running the background, sapping computing power from unsuspecting victims. We have what we believe is the first documentation of a new botnet we're calling "Prometei" that mines for Monero. Here's why you need to be on the lookout for this botnet and why it could be a sign of worse things to come if you're infected.

If you didn't get enough election security news last week with our research paper, the guys on Beers With Talos dug even deeper into the topic in the latest episode.

Cyber Security Week in Review

More information continues to come out regarding the massive Twitter hack last week that led to several high-profile accounts being taken over and sending out information on a Bitcoin scam. A new report from the New York Times found that the group behind the hack is a group of younger people who don’t have any ties to state-sponsored actors. 
Adding another layer onto the intrusion, Twitter now says that the hackers accessed the private direct messages belonging to 36 of the accounts that were breached. This raises the possibility that the victims could be extorted in the future.
This incident highlights that humans can sometimes be an organization's largest security weakness. Some employees have enough personal information out ..

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