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NoaBot Pwns Hundreds of SSH Servers as Crypto Miners
Richi Jennings | | Bitcoin miner, botnet, botnets, coin miner, coin miners, coinminer, crypto miner, Crypto miners, cryptocurrency miner, cryptominer, cryptominers, imaginary money, IoT botnet, IoT botnets, iot cryptocurrency miner, iot cryptominer, Linux.Mirai, Mirai, Mirai botnet, Mirai Malware, NoaBot, SB Blogwatch
‘hi’ — Mirai-based botnet exploits weak authentication to mine fake money ...
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LemonDuck Crypto-Miner – a KingMiner Successor
Crypto-miners have been around for several years, in all forms and shapes, and distributed via various attack avenues. Increased competition from other cyber-criminal groups and various defenses set in place at the ...
Google Play Store no longer accepts crypto-mining apps
Filip Truta | | App Store, Crypto, crypto miner, cryptocurrency, cryptocurrency miner, Cryptojacking, google, Google Play, Google Play Store, Industry News
Taking a leaf from Apple’s rulebook regarding cryptocurrency mining, Google has updated its Play Store guidelines to keep shady financial instruments out of its Android applications venue. Over on the Google Play ...
Multipurpose Trojan MysteryBot Targets Android Devices
Cybercriminals have a new Android malware program in their toolbox called MysteryBot that can serve multiple purposes: banking Trojan, keylogger and ransomware. The Trojan was identified by researchers from threat intelligence firm ...
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Google officially bans all crypto miners from Chrome web store
Filip Truta | | Bitcoin, Chrome, Coinhive, crypto miner, cryptocurrency, cryptography, Ethereum, google, Industry News, Monero
Cryptocurrency miners have become such a problem that Google is taking a radical measure to protect customers from stealthy miners disguised as legitimate browser extensions – banning any miner that even approaches ...
Creator of cryptocurrency miner Coinhive reveals his identity
Filip Truta | | Bitcoin, Bitcoin miner, Coinhive, crypto miner, cryptocurrency, Cryptojacking, crytography, Industry News, Monero, security bloggers network
“Monetize your business with your users’ CPU power.” That’s the alluring promise to make a fortune overnight through crypto-mining, the practice of using computing power to generate cryptocurrency – digital money that ...
Mac developer slides in crypto-miner in exchange for premium features, Apple doesn’t mind
Filip Truta | | Bitcoin, Crypto, crypto miner, cryptocurrency, Cryptojacking, Industry News, Monero, security bloggers network
Calendar apps aren’t exactly the rage, but one developer has managed to squeeze in just enough functionality to get people to pay for it, and even to mine cryptocurrency for the seller ...
Rick and Morty episode? Nope, another CoinMiner
Bart | | coin miner, coinminer, crypto miner, Cryptocurrency Mining Malware, cryptominer, rick and morty, torrents are bad
Last week I got an email from someone requesting help in regards to a possible malware infection: that person downloaded a torrent, and believed it was a legitimate episode of Rick and ...