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Cryptocurrency miners have become such a problem that Google is taking a radical measure to protect customers from stealthy miners disguised as legitimate browser extensions – banning any miner that even approaches its Chrome web store. As we rep… Continue reading Google officially bans all crypto miners from Chrome web store
“Monetize your business with your users’ CPU power.” That’s the alluring promise to make a fortune overnight through crypto-mining, the practice of using computing power to generate cryptocurrency – digital money that can … Continue reading Creator of cryptocurrency miner Coinhive reveals his identity
Calendar apps aren’t exactly the rage, but one developer has managed to squeeze in just enough functionality to get people to pay for it, and even to mine cryptocurrency for the seller in exchange for premium features. It’s the story of Cal… Continue reading Mac developer slides in crypto-miner in exchange for premium features, Apple doesn’t mind
I published the following diary on isc.sans.org: “The Crypto Miners Fight For CPU Cycles“: I found an interesting piece of Powershell code yesterday. The purpose is to download and execute a crypto miner but the code also implements a detection mechanism to find other miners, security tools or greedy processes
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Bad actors secretly infected more than 4,000 websites with the script for a crypto-miner after hacking a single technology provider. The trouble started on 11 February when Ian Thornton-Trump encountered something concerning while visiting the website … Continue reading 4K+ Websites Infected with Crypto-Miner after Tech Provider Hacked
Hackers are increasingly setting their sights on electronic medical records (EMR) to extort money from hospitals and their affiliated system vendors. Most recently, one hospital has seen its EMR service hijacked to mine cryptocurrency. On January 26, P… Continue reading Hospital warns 24,000 patients that its EMR system was hacked to mine cryptocurrency
“Bitcoin,” “Litecoin,” “Ethereum,” and “cryptocurrency” have rapidly become household names, though many households don’t have a firm understanding of the technology behind cryptocurrencies and the … Continue reading Protect Yourself Against Social Engineering in the Age of Cryptocurrency