Security News

Starbucks site slurped, Z-Wave locks clocked, mad Mac Monero mining malware and much more
2018-05-26 14:01

Some security bites for the long weekend Roundup While this week was dominated by news of a new Spectre variant, the VPNFilter botnet, and TalkTalk's badbad routersrouters, plenty of other stories...

Starbucks site slurped, Comcast keys clocked, mad Mac Monero mining malware and much more
2018-05-26 14:01

Some security bites for the long weekend Roundup While this week was dominated by news of a new Spectre variant, the VPNFilter botnet, and TalkTalk's badbad routersrouters, plenty of other stories...

Macs Infected With New Monero-Mining Malware
2018-05-24 14:11

Many Mac users reported in the past few weeks that a process named “mshelper” had been eating up a lot of CPU power and draining their batteries. It turns out that the process is associated with a...

Mining apps? We're cool so long as they admit to it, says Canonical
2018-05-16 04:56

Better review for Snaps Store promised anyway after last week's crypto surprise Canonical has responded to last week's discovery that its Snap store carried apps containing embedded...

Ubuntu sends crypto-mining apps out of its store and into a tomb
2018-05-14 03:08

Developer's dreams of driving off in a Ferrari dashed Admins of the Ubuntu Store have pulled all apps from a developer who signed himself "Nicholas Tomb", and from his e-mail signature apparently...

Ubuntu sends crypto-mining apps out of its store and into at tomb
2018-05-14 03:08

Developer's dreams of driving off in a Ferrari dashed Admins of the Ubuntu Store have pulled all apps from a developer who signed himself "Nicholas Tomb", and from his e-mail signature apparently...

Dig this: The future of crypto-mining botnets
2018-05-03 12:15

The blockchain sector is now bursting with innovation, with developers looking for new, pragmatic ways to use this secure distributed ledger technology across a range of applications. And as...

A New Cryptocurrency Mining Virus is Spreading Through Facebook
2018-05-01 15:48

If you receive a link for a video, even if it looks exciting, sent by someone (or your friend) on Facebook messenger—just don't click on it without taking a second thought. Cybersecurity...

PyRoMine Uses NSA Exploit for Monero Mining and Backdoors
2018-04-26 18:21

Not just a miner, the malware also sets up a hidden default account with system administrator privileges, to be used for re-infection and further attacks.

Power spike leads Chinese police to 600-machine mining rig
2018-04-26 05:24

Six Bitcoiners cuffed for electricity heist Chinese media is reporting the seizure of 600 Bitcoin miners in the northern municipality of Tianjin, on the grounds of electricity theft.…