Cryptojacking

A roundup of UK focused Cyber and Information Security News, Blog Posts, Reports and general Threat Intelligence from the previous calendar month, May 2020.EasyJet's disclosure of a "highly sophisticated cyber-attack", which occurred ...

A couple of years ago it felt like you couldn’t turn your head in any direction without seeing another headline about cryptomining and – its more evil sibling – cryptojacking. Countless websites ...

Cryptojacking, also known as crypto mining, is an online threat hidden on a computer or a mobile device, using its resources to mine for cryptocurrencies. While doing so, cryptojacking takes over control ...

(written with Eliyah Havemann and Dan Bloom) As we approach the end of the year and enter the season of holiday gifting, it’s an excellent time to weigh-in on “high tech” connected ...

As the online equivalent to Black Friday, Cyber Monday is among the biggest online shopping days of the year. Cyber Monday, along with Black Friday, heralds the beginning of the online holiday ...

Researchers discovered a new cryptojacking worm called “Graboid” that has spread to more than 2,000 unsecured Docker hosts. In its research, Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 team noted that it’s the first ...

The Internet keeps getting weirder, and users are getting harder to protect. Yet Menlo Security continues to keep users safe ...

Despite losing some steam in recent times, the cryptocurrency mining craze is still alive and kicking. Ukrainian local media reports that workers at a nuclear power plant have been caught mining cryptocurrency ...

We analyse a cryptojacking attack that mines the Monero cryptocurrency. The value of Monero in US dollars has more than doubled over the first half of 2019, from $46 to $98. The ...

You have backups in the event your business is hit by ransomware. You have prepared PR statements should there be any kind of customer data breach. You have been careful to keep ...