Security News > 2018 > February > Millions of Android devices forced to mine Monero for crooks

No device is safe from criminals looking to make it stealthily mine cryptocurrency for them. However weak its processing power is, it still costs them nothing. With that in mind, forced crypto mining attacks have also begun hitting mobile phones and tablets en masse, either via Trojanized apps or redirects and pop-unders. An example of the latter approach has been recently documented by Malwarebytes’ researchers. The attack “In a campaign we first observed in late … More →

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