Security News

Hackers Exploit Drupal Flaw for Monero Mining
2018-06-22 12:21

Network attacks exploiting a recently patched Drupal vulnerability are attempting to drop Monero mining malware onto vulnerable systems, Trend Micro reports. read more

$175 Million in Monero Mined via Malicious Programs: Report
2018-06-12 15:13

The popularity of crypto-currency malware has been skyrocketing over the past year, and the segment appears to have been highly lucrative for cybercriminals, a new Palo Alto Networks report...

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...

Crypto Me0wing attacks: Kitty cashes in on Monero
2018-05-24 11:30

It’s been a month since the first Drupalgeddon 2.0 RCE (SA-CORE-2018-002/CVE-2018-7600) exploit was first published, unleashing its destruction into the wild… and through our cloud monitoring...

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.

New Monero-Mining Android Malware Discovered
2018-04-03 16:18

A newly discovered malware family attempts to leverage the (limited) computing power of Android devices to mine for Monero crypto-currency, Trend Micro warns. Dubbed HiddenMiner, the malware was...

Breaking the Anonymity in the Cryptocurrency Monero
2018-03-28 19:25

Researchers have exploited a flaw in the cryptocurrency Monero to break the anonymity of transactions. Research paper. BoingBoing post....

Millions of Android devices forced to mine Monero for crooks
2018-02-13 21:50

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...