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Adobe Systems released an emergency patch for a critical vulnerability in Flash Player that was being exploited in the wild through Microsoft Word documents to infect computers with a known surveillance tool. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2017-1129… Continue reading Adobe Fixes Critical Flash Player Vulnerability Exploited in the Wild
Mining cryptocurrencies can be a costly investment as it takes a monstrous amount of computing power, and thus hackers have started using malware that steals computing resources of computers it hijacks to make lots of dollars in digital currency.
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Secretly mining cryptocurrency by using the machines of unsuspecting victims is a malicious ploy that was invented almost as soon as cryptocurrency came into being. Just this week, two such schemes surfaced. An operation has been infecting Windows web servers with a silent Monero miner since at least May 2017 to net $63,000 worth of the currency, say researchers from cybersecurity firm ESET. Cryptocurrency mining, put simply, is when powerful computer processors solve immense math problems that take considerable time and energy. Solving the problems rewards miners with digital currency like bitcoin, Monero and so on. It costs money to power the computers that do the mining, so hackers who sneakily employ other people’s machines are avoiding expenses. The big electricity bill that results is suddenly another person’s problem. New research from ESET shows that hundreds of unpatched servers were infected with a known vulnerability — labeled CVE-2017-7296 — and used to mine Monero for […]
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The world’s popular torrent download website, The Pirate Bay, has again been in a new controversy—this time over secretly planting an in-browser cryptocurrency miner on its website that utilizes its visitors’ CPU processing power in order to mine digital currencies.
The Pirate Bay is the most popular and most visited file-sharing website predominantly used to share copyrighted material free of
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