(in)Secure is a weekly column that dives into the rapidly escalating topic of cybersecurity. Making money from mining cryptocurrencies isn’t just something that people do with their own hardware, ...
Microsoft exposes a cryptojacking campaign using SEO poisoning and ScreenConnect to target high-performance PCs, with ...
Attackers are targeting system utility applications favored by PC users with high-performance GPUs, as these systems offer the greatest mining potential.
The rise of cryptocurrency has resulted in a number of concerns. Yet while regulations and cryptocurrency hacks seem to be the primary worries, a new threat known as “cryptojacking” has entered the ...
Crooks are attempting to spread their cryptojacking malware to unsuspecting victims by disguising it as an update for Flash. This particular mining operation is thought to have been operating since ...
Cryptojacking malware is already losing its appeal to cyber criminals as some users of the illicit cryptocurrency-mining software begin to realise that it isn't as simple a means of making a quick ...
In the past month more than 4000 websites, including government websites in the US and UK, such as the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), were reported to be serving the CoinHive crypto ...
Cryptojacking. It’s not as loud as ransomware or headline-grabbing data breaches, but it’s quietly draining resources and racking up costs. Instead of locking you out of your systems, cryptojacking ...
The number of "cryptojacking" cases across the financial sector has risen by 269% in the first half of 2022, according to a report by cybersecurity firm SonicWall.
Cybersecurity can feel like a chaotic free-for-all sometimes, but it's not every day that a whole new conceptual type of attack crops up. Over the last 15 months, though, cryptojacking has been ...
Malicious online actors can infect your organization’s computers with malware, turning them into cryptomining machines hunting for bitcoin and wasting energy in the process. The price of bitcoin, the ...
If you’re concerned about cybersecurity, and you’re not up to speed on illicit crypto mining, aka ‘cryptojacking,’ then it’s time to get with the program. Cryptojacking is now more prevalent than ...