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A global threat report has concluded that the three most common malware variants detected in April were crypto miners
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Cryptojacking malware Shellbot can now shut down other mining on infected servers
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After in-browser mining service Coinhive was shut down in early March, cryptojacking against consumers has sharply decreased, according to a new report
By satoshi
April 27, 2019
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New enterprise-targeting crypto mining malware Beapy surged to over 12,000 unique infection across 732 organizations since March, according Symantec researchers
By satoshi
April 25, 2019
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Two alleged Romanian hackers have been convicted by a U.S. federal jury of spreading malware to illicitly mine cryptocurrency
By satoshi
April 13, 2019
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Mozilla Firefox has launched anti-crypto mining protection option in its latest Nightly 68 and Beta 67 browser versions
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A Japanese court has ruled to acquit a man who was illicitly mining crypto after embedding Coinhive on his website
By satoshi
March 27, 2019
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Ukraine’s Cyber Police arrested a 32-year-old man who was running crypto mining malware on his websites with 1.5 million monthly visitors
By satoshi
March 27, 2019
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Cybercriminals are reportedly favoring “low and slow” approaches in attacks made for financial gains, and cryptojacking is a prime example of this shift, the report notes
By satoshi
March 14, 2019
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Monero mining software is seemingly running on hundreds of vulnerable servers, according to a new report
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United States-based tech giant Microsoft has removed eight Windows 10 applications from its official app store after the detection of cryptojacking code
By satoshi
February 15, 2019
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Hackers are set on cryptojacking for Monero as Linux users see another dedicated threat
By satoshi
February 6, 2019
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New report reveals a cryptojacking virus targeting Linux servers has the ability to disable cloud-based security measures to avoid detection
By satoshi
January 18, 2019
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McAfee Labs: Cryptojacking malware rose by over 4000% in 2018, and threat actors are now targeting IoT devices
By satoshi
December 20, 2018
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Did you know there have been 13 million cryptojacking incidents in 2018? Russian cyber-security firm Kaspersky Lab has released data that cryptojacking cases have gone through …
By satoshi
December 17, 2018
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The number of MikroTik routers affected by cryptojacking malware may have reached as high as 415,000, a cybersecurity researcher claims
By satoshi
December 5, 2018
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Check Point Research cybersecurity firm has found that the KingMiner cryptojacking malware is “evolving” its attack methods
By satoshi
November 30, 2018
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Report from Kaspersky Labs states that crypto mining malware became increasingly popular among botnets in 2018, as compared with other attack vectors
By satoshi
November 29, 2018
