Collaborate Disseminate
People keep telling me that crypto-mining is the new ransomware… Certainly it seems to be filling my mailbox at the moment, At any rate, I’m maintaining a new cryptocurrency-related resource on this site as of today. For the moment, I’… Continue reading Cryptocurrency/Crypto-mining resource page
As cryptocurrency values have soared, so too has the cost of the hardware needed to mine them – if you can even buy the GPUs, given the shortages. Continue reading Coinming frenzy is making it hard for us to find aliens
This week, Paul reports on hackers hijacking Nintendo Switch, Salon website gives you a choice: turn off your ad blocker or let us mine cryptocurrency, and Google Chrome marking all non-HTTPS sites insecure in July 2018! Tim Helming of DomainTools join… Continue reading Microsoft, Lenovo, Romance Scans, and Crypto Mining – Hack Naked News #161
The attack could have been averted through a technique called subresource integrity, according to researcher Scott Helme. Continue reading U.K. and U.S. Government Websites Among Thousands Infected by Cryptocurrency Miner
Android users have been exposed to drive-by cryptomining in one of the largest campaigns that we have detected so far.
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Tags: AndroidBotCAPTCHAcoinhivecrypto miningcryptominingdrive-by
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The post… Continue reading Drive-by cryptomining campaign targets millions of Android users
Iain Thompson for The Register: Good news, everyone: Ransomware declining. Bad news: Miscreants are turning to crypto-mining on infected PCs – Screw asking for digi-coins. Craft ’em on 500,000 computers Well, I don’t have im… Continue reading Ransomware in decline?
Imperva’s research group is constantly monitoring new web application vulnerabilities. In doing so, we’ve noticed at least four major insecure deserialization vulnerabilities that were published in the past year. Our analysis shows that, in… Continue reading Deserialization Attacks Surge Motivated by Illegal Crypto-mining
A 10-second delay when customers connected to the “free” Wi-Fi was harnessed for secret cryptocoin mining Continue reading Starbucks Wi-Fi hijacked customers’ laptops to mine cryptocoins