Collaborate Disseminate
What an irony — someone hacked the official website of the Monero cryptocurrency project and quietly replaced legitimate Linux and Windows binaries available for download with malicious versions designed to steal funds from users’ wallets.
The latest … Continue reading Official Monero Site Hacked to Distribute Cryptocurrency Stealing Malware
Coinhive, a notorious in-browser cryptocurrency mining service popular among cybercriminals, has announced that it will discontinue its services on March 8, 2019.
Regular readers of The Hacker News already know how Coinhive’s service helped cyber crim… Continue reading Hackers Favorite CoinHive Cryptocurrency Mining Service Shutting Down
Security researchers have been warning about a new malicious campaign that leverages an alternative scheme to mine cryptocurrencies without directly injecting the infamous CoinHive JavaScript into thousands of hacked websites.
Coinhive is a popular br… Continue reading CoinHive URL Shortener Abused to Secretly Mine Cryptocurrency Using Hacked Sites
The Drupal vulnerability (CVE-2018-7600), dubbed Drupalgeddon2 that could allow attackers to completely take over vulnerable websites has now been exploited in the wild to deliver malware backdoors and cryptocurrency miners.
Drupalgeddon2, a highly cr… Continue reading Hackers Exploiting Drupal Vulnerability to Inject Cryptocurrency Miners
Due to the recent surge in cryptocurrency prices, threat actors are increasingly targeting every platform, including IoT, Android, and Windows, with malware that leverages the CPU power of victims’ devices to mine cryptocurrency.
Just last month, Kasp… Continue reading Watch Out! New Cryptocurrency-Mining Android Malware is Spreading Rapidly
2017 was the year of high profile data breaches and ransomware attacks, but from the beginning of this year, we are noticing a faster-paced shift in the cyber threat landscape, as cryptocurrency-related malware is becoming a popular and profitable choi… Continue reading Cryptocurrency Mining Malware Infected Over Half-Million PCs Using NSA Exploit
A cryptocurrency miner surfaced on The Pirate Bay for a day over the weekend. Continue reading Pirate Bay Spotted Hosting Monero Cryptocurrency Miner