Crypto mining malware has dominated the threat landscape in the first half of 2018, according to a report by Skybox Security.
Cryptomining malwares are software programs developed to take over a computer’s resources and use them for cryptocurrency mining without a user’s explicit permission.
Cybersecurity company Trend Micro has identified a malicious Chrome extension that hijacks cryptocurrency transactions.
Dubbed FacexWorm, the malicious extension, which was first discovered by Kaspersky Labs in August 2017, uses a miscellany of techniques to target cryptocurrency trading platforms accessed on an affected browser and propagates via Facebook Messenger.
The University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab has discovered that the Egyptian government has been using a malware to redirect their citizens’ computers to mine Monero.
The technology research lab claimed in a study that they identified a scheme they call “AdHose” that secretly redirects Egyptian Internet users’ web traffic to a malware that used their computers to mine the Monero cryptocurrency or display ads.
Electric vehicle maker Tesla is the latest victim of a cryptocurrency mining malware attack, according to researchers at security firm RedLock.
On Tuesday, RedLock released its 2018 Cloud Security Trends report which documents the discovery of an unprotected Kubernetes console belonging to automaker Tesla.
Government websites across many countries, including the US, the UK, and Australia, have reportedly been exploited by malware that harnesses visitors’ computers to mine cryptocurrency.
According to British security researcher Scott Helme, he spotted a third-party exploit that injects a script that mines cryptocurrency on over 4,200 sites.
A new cryptocurrency mining botnet called Smominru has infected more than 526,000 computers using a leaked National Security Agency (NSA) exploit, according to cybersecurity firm Proofpoint.
A botnet is a collection of Internet-connected devices, which may include computers, servers, mobile devices and Internet of Things (IoT) devices,
International software security group Kaspersky Lab recently discovered a new malware called CryptoShuffler Trojan. The new malware steals cryptocurrencies from a user’s wallet by replacing their address with its own in the device’s clipboard.
Kaspersky said CryptoShuffler Trojan enters computers disguised as a harmless pieces of software downloaded from the Internet.
Vice’s Motherboard site is reporting that a new malware infection is requesting nude pictures from its victims instead of the traditional bitcoin ransom.
Researchers at MalwareHunterTeam, a ransomware watchdog, first spotted what’s being called nRansomware. Once infected, a message pops up on user screens: “Your computer has been locked,”
