Security News

An Army of Thousands of Hacked Servers Found Mining Cryptocurrencies (The Hackers News)
2017-05-05 02:19

A new botnet consisting of more than 15,000 compromised servers has been used to mine various cryptocurrencies, earning its master around $25,000 per month. Mining cryptocurrencies can be a costly...

Zcash Spurs Rash of Malicious Mining Software (Threatpost)
2016-12-13 22:42

Hackers are mining Zcash cryptocurrency surreptitiously on PCs infected with cleverly named programs such as system.exe, taskmngr.exe and svchost.exe.

Zcash mining software covertly installed on victims’ machines (Help Net Security)
2016-12-13 12:45

Software “mining” the recently established Zcash (ZEC) cryptocurrency is being foisted upon unsuspecting users, Kaspersky Lab warns. The actual software is not illegal, and not technically malware...

Your Seagate Central NAS could be hosting mining malware (Help Net Security)
2016-09-09 18:10

If you have discovered cryptocurrency mining malware on your system, have removed it, and got compromised again without an idea about how it happened, it could be that the source of the infection...