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During Q4 2017, McAfee Labs saw on average eight new threat samples per second, and the increasing use of fileless malware attacks leveraging Microsoft PowerShell. The Q4 spike in Bitcoin value...
Two days ago, Microsoft encountered a rapidly spreading cryptocurrency-mining malware that infected almost 500,000 computers within just 12 hours and successfully blocked it to a large extent....
Around 600 powerful devices specifically designed for mining bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have been stolen from Icelandic data centers in what has been dubbed the "Big Bitcoin Heist." To...
At a white elephant party in northern Colorado in December, a friend of mine was telling me that he’d borrowed against his children’s college funds to put money into three different...
On Sunday, over 4,200 websites around the world started hijacking visitors’ browsers to mine the Monero crypto currency. The attack The problem was first noticed and partly documented by security...
Hacked Script Infects Several Government Sites with Cryptominer read more
Security of Code Pushed by Content Delivery Networks Remains Ongoing ConcernMore than 4,200 websites, some belonging to the U.S., U.K. and Australian governments, have been turning their visitors'...
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: When crypto-mining malware hits a SCADA network Radiflow has recently discovered Monero-mining malware on five servers...
Are More Healthcare Sector Entities at Risk?Do healthcare entities face a growing risk of being hit with cryptocurrency mining attacks, which have become more common in other sectors? A Tennessee...
A water utility in Europe has been infected by cryptocurrency mining software. This is a relatively new attack: hackers compromise computers and force them to mine cryptocurrency for them. This is...