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Eight applications designed to mine for crypto-currency without users’ knowledge made their way into the Microsoft Store, Symantec has discovered. read more
Cryptojacking was the runaway security problem in 2018, damaging devices in cybercriminals' pursuit of profits. As cryptocurrency prices fall, 2019 could see more attacks.
Visitors of the international website of the US-based non-profit Make-A-Wish Foundation have had their computing power misused to covertly mine cryptocurrency, Trustwave researchers have found....
Hackers took advantage of an unpatched Drupal vulnerability in the organization's website to launch a cryptojacking attack.
Cryptomining apps were banned from the Play Store some time ago - but that hasn't stopped the crooks getting cryptojackers past Google...
1 out of 500 of the one million most visited websites according to Alexa contains a web-based cryptominer that starts mining as soon as the website has been opened in the browser, researchers from...
Hackers shouldn't quit their day scams if they want to eat Cryptojacking, the hijacking of computing resources to mine cryptocurrency, turns out to be both relatively widespread and not...
Cryptojacking attacks are on the rise. We talk to security researcher Troy Mursch about why bad actors are drawn to this attack technique.
A massive cryptojacking campaign that relies on compromised MikroTik routers serves users with pages injected with the Coinhive mining script. It seems that the attacker initially mainly focused...
Pre-execution security technologies coupled with core antimalware technologies can effectively detect and not just block the cryptojacking payload, but also prevent the attack from occurring.