Cryptojacking News

U.S. federal jury convicted two alleged Romanian hackers of spreading malware to steal credit card credentials and illicitly mine cryptocurrency.

Major open-source browser Mozilla Firefox announced new protections against crypto mining attacks in its new browser versions.

A Japanese court has acquitted a man who was allegedly illicitly mining cryptocurrency after embedding a dedicated program in his website.

The Cyber Police of Ukraine have arrested a man who placed crypto mining malware on his own websites with 1.5 million monthly visitors.

A recent report shows that cryptojacking is a prime example of cybercriminals’ shift to “low and slow” attack approaches.

Hundreds of vulnerable servers on software Docker were seemingly running Monero mining software.

United States-based software corporation Microsoft has removed eight Windows 10 applications from its official app store.

The modified Shellbot trojan is thought to have originated from a Romanian hacker collective.

A new cryptojacking malware reportedly has the ability to disable cloud-based security measures to avoid detection on Linux-based servers.

McAfee Labs: Cryptojacking rose by over 4000 percent in 2018, and threat actors are now targeting IoT devices.

A security researcher claims that the number of MikroTik routers affected by cryptojacking malware has doubled since August 2018.

Cyber security firm Check Point Research has found that the cryptojacking malware KingMiner is “evolving” as it targets XMR and attacks Windows Servers.

A cybersecurity report from Kaspersky Labs states that crypto mining malware became increasingly popular among botnets in 2018, as compared with other attack ve...

A further player has entered the crypto malware arena in the form of Monero miner WebCobra, a McAfee Labs analysis shows.

Official government websites have become a prime target for cryptojacking in India, according to research from local cybersecurity experts.