Collaborate Disseminate
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
Three widely used Mac apps infected with cryptocurrency miners have been flagged by security researchers this week. The programs, distributed through third-party aggregators (i.e. not the official Mac App Store), need to be immediately uninstalled if u… Continue reading Running Firefox, OnyX or Deeper on your Mac? You might be mining cryptocurrency for a hacker
Researchers say Smominru threat actors are in control of 500,000 node botnet and earning $8,500 daily mining for Monero cryptocurrency. Continue reading Massive Smominru Cryptocurrency Botnet Rakes In Millions
More than 2,000 WordPress websites have once again been found infected with a piece of crypto-mining malware that not only steals the resources of visitors’ computers to mine digital currencies but also logs visitors’ every keystroke.
Security researc… Continue reading Nearly 2000 WordPress Websites Infected with a Keylogger
The IBM X-Force team monitored major data breach trends throughout 2017 and gleaned key insights to help companies avoid headline-grabbing security incidents and protect sensitive data.
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As the value of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies skyrockets, fraudsters are developing new blockchain exploits and mining schemes to get their cut of the digital gold rush.
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This is an evolution of a popular scheme. Continue reading Hackers Hijacked an Internet Provider to Mine Cryptocurrency with Laptops In Starbucks
Some websites have found using a simple yet effective technique to keep their cryptocurrency mining javascript secretly running in the background even when you close your web browser.
Due to the recent surge in cryptocurrency prices, hackers and even … Continue reading Cryptocurrency Mining Scripts Now Run Even After You Close Your Browser
Steganography continues to be an incredibly versatile and effective method for obscuring or hiding information in plain sight.
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Last month the popular torrent website The Pirate Bay caused some uproar by adding a Javascript-based cryptocurrency miner to its site with no opt-out option, utilizing visitors’ CPU power to mine Monero coins in an attempt to gain an extra source of r… Continue reading D-Link MEA Site Caught Running Cryptocurrency Mining Script—Or Was It Hacked?