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Annual Protest to ‘Fight Krebs’ Raises €150K+

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In 2018, KrebsOnSecurity unmasked the creators of Coinhive — a now-defunct cryptocurrency mining service that was being massively abused by cybercriminals — as the administrators of a popular German language image-hosting forum. In protest of that story, forum members donated hundreds of thousands of euros to nonprofits that combat cancer (Krebs means “cancer” in German). This week, the forum is celebrating its third annual observance of that protest to “fight Krebs,” albeit with a Coronavirus twist. Continue reading Annual Protest to ‘Fight Krebs’ Raises €150K+→

Coinhive stops digging, but cryptomining still dominates

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While cryptomining services such as Coinhive have closed down, cryptominers are still the most prevalent malware aimed at organizations globally, according to the Check Point Global Threat Index for March 2019. As announced last month, both Coinhive an… Continue reading Coinhive stops digging, but cryptomining still dominates→

Annual Protest Raises $250K to Cure Krebs

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For the second year in a row, denizens of a large German-language online forum have donated more than USD $250,000 to cancer research organizations in protest of a story KrebsOnSecurity published in 2018 that unmasked the creators of Coinhive, a now-defunct cryptocurrency mining service that was massively abused by cybercriminals. Krebs is translated as “cancer” in German. Continue reading Annual Protest Raises $250K to Cure Krebs→

Researchers unveil February 2019’s most wanted malware

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Coinhive has once again led Check Point’s Global Threat Index for the 15th consecutive month, despite the announcement that its services have been shut down from March 8th 2019. GandCrab ransomware Researchers have also discovered several widespr… Continue reading Researchers unveil February 2019’s most wanted malware→

The Pirate Bay’s preferred cryptominer Coinhive shutting down next week

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The Pirate Bay was caught twice secretly mining Monero cryptocurrency using Javascript powered by Coinhive. Popular in-browser crypto-mining service will be shutting down from March 9th, 2019 much to the dismay of hackers who loved it quite ar… Continue reading The Pirate Bay’s preferred cryptominer Coinhive shutting down next week→