Torrent website The Pirate Bay is doubling down on its plan to use visitors' processing power to mine crypto. In a disclaimer recently added to the bottom of its homepage, the website said that "by ...

While the world is holding its breath, wondering where notorious cybercriminal groups like Lazarus or Telebots will strike next with another destructive malware such as WannaCryptor or Petya, there ...

A Turkish-based cryptocurrency malware called ‘Nitrokod’ has infected over 100,000 personal computers across 11 countries. What Happened: A new report from cybersecurity firm Check Point Research ...

More than 526,000 Windows hosts – mostly Windows servers – have been infected by a Monero miner known as Smominru, according to researchers at Proofpoint. In a blog on its website Proofpoint, having ...

Malware that mines cryptocurrency has made a comeback over the summer, with an increased number of campaigns being discovered and documented by cyber-security firms. The primary reason for this sudden ...

About 400 servers running virtualization software Docker were found to be vulnerable to outside exploitation. Most of them were seemingly running Monero (XMR) mining software, cybersecurity company ...

We’ve seen cryptocurrency hungry hackers hiding mining malware in Adobe Flash updates, and even in legitimate Windows updates, but now hackers are hiding it in cracked audio production software.

Israeli security firm Check Point uncovered a large-scale cryptocurrency mining operation which installed malware on servers running Jenkins, an automation software designed for web development. The ...

In the age of altcoins, at least one news site is taking a novel approach to making ends meet. Salon announced today that it would give readers a choice between turning off ad-blocking software or ...

Cryptojacking, an internet scam found on thousands of websites in which nefarious actors mine cryptocurrencies on computers without users’ permission, has been on the rise since the prices of bitcoin ...

HTC, the mobile phone manufacturer that has taken a special interest in the application of blockchain technology for mobile phones, has now decided to cross into the realm of mining. HTC Exodus, its ...