Cryptojacking News

Two threat analysts recently stumbled upon Skidmap, new Linux malware that keeps its cryptocurrency mining operations hidden.

Fifteen men suspected of paying an internet café administrator to secretly mine cryptocurrency have been arrested in China.

McAfee Labs has observed increases of 29% in crypto jacking and 118% in ransomware attacks in the first quarter of 2019.

The suspect behind the massive Capital One data breach also allegedly hacked cloud customers’ servers to mine cryptocurrency for herself.

French police have located the server of a massive botnet, which had previously been utilized by hackers for XRM cryptojacking.

Eleven open-source code libraries written in Ruby contained cryptojacking code and were downloaded thousands of times.

A cybersecurity firm has discovered a new strain of Monero mining malware, which contains code that hides the miner from Task Manager.

Smominru, Monero-mining malware found on at least half a million computers, now also steals user data.

Computer analysts have found a new type of virus — a remote-access trojan — that targets cryptocurrency users.

Cybersecurity firm ESET has detected what it describes as an unusual and persistent cryocurrency miner distributed for macOS and Windows since August 2018.

Bitcoin is reportedly producing as much carbon emissions as Kansas City, while Facebook gets some new backers for its crypto project.

Trend Micro claims to have detected a web address spreading a botnet featuring a monero mining component alongside a backdoor.

Cybersecurity firm Trend Micro has confirmed that attackers have been exploiting a vulnerability in the Oracle WebLogic server to install XMR mining malware.

Cybersecurity firm Trend Micro has detected a major uptick in monero cryptojacking malware targeting China-based systems this spring.

A malware dubbed BlackSquid infects web servers by employing eight different security exploits and installs mining software.