Malicious online actors can infect your organization’s computers with malware, turning them into cryptomining machines hunting for bitcoin and wasting energy in the process. The price of bitcoin, the ...
Microsoft exposes a cryptojacking campaign using SEO poisoning and ScreenConnect to target high-performance PCs, with ...
Attackers are targeting system utility applications favored by PC users with high-performance GPUs, as these systems offer the greatest mining potential.
A new report from SonicWall shows that cybercriminals have increasingly been trying to break into the computer systems of financial institutions to install ransomware and mine for cryptocurrency. This ...
The rise of cryptocurrency has resulted in a number of concerns. Yet while regulations and cryptocurrency hacks seem to be the primary worries, a new threat known as “cryptojacking” has entered the ...
What happens when an AI recommends a tool, and that tool ends up being malicious?
Cybersecurity can feel like a chaotic free-for-all sometimes, but it's not every day that a whole new conceptual type of attack crops up. Over the last 15 months, though, cryptojacking has been ...
Cryptojacking scripts that mine Monero via JavaScript code can also run inside Word files, security researchers have discovered. This is possible via a new feature added to recent versions of ...
Threat actors are targeting systems with high-performance computers in an ongoing cryptojacking campaign spread through a ...
Cryptojacking malware is already losing its appeal to cyber criminals as some users of the illicit cryptocurrency-mining software begin to realise that it isn't as simple a means of making a quick ...
Crooks are attempting to spread their cryptojacking malware to unsuspecting victims by disguising it as an update for Flash. This particular mining operation is thought to have been operating since ...
Coinhive, a service that allows websites to use their visitor’s computers to mine cryptocurrencies, is shutting down, ZDNet reports. All of the service’s in-browser mining scripts will stop working on ...