Collaborate Disseminate
It’s that time of the year when we look back at the tech trends of 2017 to provide us with a hint of things to come. Accordingly, let’s engage in our favorite end-of-year pastime: predictions about the coming year. Equipped with ImpervaR… Continue reading Top Five Trends IT Security Pros Need to Think About Going into 2018
It’s that time of the year when we look back at the tech trends of 2017 to provide us with a hint of things to come. Accordingly, let’s engage in our favorite end-of-year pastime: predictions about the coming year. Equipped with ImpervaR… Continue reading Top Five Trends IT Security Pros Need to Think About Going into 2018
Reports say that the Bitcoin was worth $58m at the time. As of Thursday morning, the value had soared to $80m. Continue reading NiceHash cryptomining exchange hacked; everything’s gone
NiceHash, one of the most popular crypto-mining marketplaces, has apparently suffered a breach that resulted in the theft of the entire contents of the NiceHash Bitcoin wallet. “We are currently investigating the nature of the incident and, as a … Continue reading NiceHash suffers security breach, around $70 million in Bitcoin stolen
The extraordinary volatility of the price of bitcoin has spurred speculators to employ a wide variety of tricks to make it swing between extremes, so that they can take advantage of it. The unregulated nature of the cryptocurrency ecosystem makes it po… Continue reading DDoS attackers increasingly targeting cryptocurrency exchanges
Are the mobile apps you’re using to store or handle your cryptocurrency stash, track the currencies’ price, or interact with cryptocurrency exchanges secure? Judging by the results of a recent audit by High-Tech Bridge, the chances are slim… Continue reading How secure are cryptocurrency mobile apps?
In-browser cryptocurrency mining is, in theory, a neat idea: make users’ computers “mine” Monero for website owners so they don’t have to bombard users with ads in order to earn money. Unfortunately, in this far-from-ideal world… Continue reading Stealthy in-browser cryptomining continues even after you close window
As more and more Coinhive clones continue popping up, chances of users’ CPU power being hijacked for cryptocurrency mining are rising. According to Malwarebytes’ latest figures, their AV solution blocked an average of 8 million cryptojacking attempts per day from late September to late October. And that’s just the attempts tied to Coinhive domains and proxies! Censys’s search engine reveals that nearly 900 of the top one million most visited sites runs the Coinhive script. … More → Continue reading The Wild West of drive-by cryptocurrency mining
Coinhive’s cryptocurrency-mining script has found its way into mobile apps offered on Google Play. Trend Micro researchers have spotted two apps that have been equipped with it: The first (prsolutions.rosariofacileads) is an app that is meant to help users pray the rosary, the second one (com.freemo.safetyne) allows users to “earn free Talk, Text, and Data” by racking up credits “by redeeming local coupons and deals, watching videos, taking surveys and more.” “Both of these samples … More → Continue reading Cryptocurrency-mining script planted in apps on Google Play
Hackers lusting after cryptocurrency but not wanting to spend money to buy it or mine it are targeting users wallets, computers, popular Web sites and public cloud computing environments. Mining software/malware is a well known pest, and instances of employees using their company’s or organization’s computer resources to surreptitiously mine cryptocoin are regularly uncovered. But lately we’ve been witnessing a number of inventive strategies employed by cryptocurrency-hungry attackers. Cryptocurrency mining in the browser A few … More → Continue reading Hackers use organizations’ resources for stealthy cryptocurrency mining