A cryptojacking code was found in 11 open-source code libraries written in Ruby, which have been downloaded thousands of times. Hackers downloaded the software, infected it with malware, and ...
The FTC is listening "Cryptojacking scams have continued to evolve, and they don’t even need you to install anything," the FTC said today in a statement. "Scammers can use malicious code embedded in a ...
Cryptojacking or malicious cryptomining is a new trick used to mine Cryptocurrencies on a user’s computer using their CPU resources in the background without their knowledge. Typically, the ...
Cryptojacking is becoming all the rage in the cybercrime world recently. Unlike ransomware, criminals do not need to wait to get paid. As soon as their code hits your servers they start generating ...
It has only been two weeks since a critical vulnerability in Apache Struts 2 was revealed to the public, but this hasn't stopped cybercriminals from rapidly adding proof-of-concept (PoC) attack code ...
Cryptojacking makes your devices mine cryptocurrency for hackers, consuming resources and risking privacy. To combat cryptojacking, disable JavaScript and use ad-blockers; install anti-malware and ...
Attackers are exploiting a three-month-old critical vulnerability in Drupal to compromise systems and secretly turn them into malicious cryptocurrency mining machines. Drupal's content management ...
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 ...
Cryptojacking scripts that mine Monero via JavaScript code can also run inside Word files, security researchers have discovered. This is possible via a new feature added to recent versions of ...
Tanya Candia is an international management expert, specializing for more than 25 years in information security strategy and communication for public- and private-sector organizations. Cryptocurrency ...