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Crooks leverage obfuscated Coinhive shortlink in a large crypto-mining operation

Crooks leverage an alternative scheme to mine cryptocurrencies, they don't inject the CoinHive JavaScript miner directly into compromised websites. Security…

8 years ago

Crooks exploit CVE-2018-7602 Drupal flaw, aka Drupalgeddon3 to deliver Monero miner

Crooks are attempting to exploit a recently patched Drupal vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2018-7602, to drop Monero mining malware onto vulnerable systems. The…

8 years ago

Android-based devices Amazon Fire TV and Fire Stick hit by cryptomining malware

A new crypto mining malicious code dubbed ADB.miner is targeting Android-based devices Amazon Fire TV and Fire Stick. Recently, security…

8 years ago

ClipboardWalletHijacker miner hijacks your Ether and Bitcoin transaction, over 300,000 computers have been infected

Researchers uncovered a new malware campaign spreading a clipboard hijacker dubbed ClipboardWalletHijacker that has already infected over 300,000 computers. Security researchers…

8 years ago

PyRoMineIoT spreads via EternalRomance exploit and targets targets IoT devices in Iran and Saudi Arabia.

Fortinet discovered PyRoMineIoT, a new strain of crypto-currency miner that exploits the NSA-linked EternalRomance exploit to spread. PyRoMineIoT is a new strain of…

8 years ago

A new massive cryptomining campaign target Linux servers exploiting old flaw

Trend Micro uncovered a new crypto mining campaign targeting Linux servers that exploit the CVE-2013-2618 flaw in Cacti’s Network Weathermap…

8 years ago

WannaMine, the sophisticated crypto miner that spreads via NSA EternalBlue exploit

Researchers from security firm CrowdStrike spotted a new Monero crypto-mining worm dubbed WannaMine that spreads leveraging the NSA-linked EternalBlue exploit. This morning…

8 years ago

Mining Smominru botnet used NSA exploit to infect more than 526,000 systems

Researchers from Proofpoint discovered a huge botnet dubbed 'Smominru' that is using the EternalBlue exploit to infect Windows computers and recruit them…

8 years ago

Trend Micro spotted a malvertising campaign abusing Google’s DoubleClick to deliver Coinhive Miner

Trend Micro uncovered a spike in the number of Coinhie miners over the past few days, including Coinhive, apparently linked…

8 years ago

Monero Crypto-Currency Mining Operation impacted 30 Million users

Security experts from PaloAlto Networks uncovered a large-scale crypto-currency mining operation that involved around 30 million systems worldwide. Security experts from…

8 years ago

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