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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
Armed with an impressive bag of exploits and other tricks for propagation, researchers believe the new trojan could be the catalyst for an upcoming, major cyber-offensive. Continue reading SpeakUp Linux Backdoor Sets Up for Major Attack
A new large-scale campaign against computer users worldwide has been uncovered to plant cryptocurrency miners via a fake Adobe Flash Update. The security report indicates that the criminals have shifted the tactic of distributing ransomware to cryptocu… Continue reading Cryptocurrency Miners Infect Thousands of PCs Via Fake Adobe Flash Update
Hijacking computing resources for cryptocurrency mining, or cryptomining, is one of the major attack trends this year and the threat is growing increasingly aggressive. Security researchers warn of a new worm that uses a variety of techniques and expl… Continue reading Cryptomining Worm MassMiner Exploits Multiple Vulnerabilities
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
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
Cryptocurrency mining service Coinhive is again in the news for misuse by a customer, this time involving handset maker Blackberry. Apparently, someone hacked into the company’s global operations website and used it to steal visitors’ compu… Continue reading Someone hacked Blackberry to steal computing power for mining cryptocurrency
If you receive a video file (packed in zip archive) sent by someone (or your friends) on your Facebook messenger — just don’t click on it.
Researchers from security firm Trend Micro are warning users of a new cryptocurrency mining bot which is spreadi… Continue reading Beware of Cryptocurrency Mining Virus Spreading Through Facebook Messenger
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?
When yesterday I was reporting about the sudden outbreak of another global ransomware attack ‘Bad Rabbit,’ I thought what could be worse than this?
Then late last night I got my answer with a notification that Coinhive has been hacked — a popular browser-based service that offers website owners to embed a JavaScript to utilise their site visitors’ CPUs power to mine the Monero cryptocurrency
Continue reading Hacker Hijacks CoinHive’s DNS to Mine Cryptocurrency Using Thousands of Websites