cryptocurrency miner
Hold My Beer Mirai – Spinoff Named ‘LiquorBot’ Incorporates Cryptomining
The Mirai botnet that made headlines in 2016 for taking out infrastructure through large-scale network attacks has become a reference point in the security industry for the damage that large IoT botnets ...
Worm-Cryptominer Combo Lets You Game While Using NSA Exploits to Move Laterally
Bitdefender researchers recently found and analyzed a worm-cryptominer combo that uses a series of exploits to move laterally and compromise victims. What makes it interest is that it pauses the resource-intensive cryptomining ...
Mining cryptocurrency at work lands Australian civil servant in court
A 33-year-old man from Sydney, New South Wales, could be sentenced to up to 10 years in jail after allegedly hijacking computers at his workplace to mine cryptocurrency for him. He’s probably ...
Google Play Store no longer accepts crypto-mining apps
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 ...
Fileless Threat CactusTorch Abuses .NET to Infect Systems
Over the past several months, security researchers have observed increased activity from a malware threat called CactusTorch that uses fileless techniques and reputable Windows executables to avoid detection. The malware program loads ...
