More than 526,000 Windows hosts – mostly Windows servers – have been infected by a Monero miner known as Smominru, according to researchers at Proofpoint. In a blog on its website Proofpoint, having ...

On June 24, security experts from Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 warned about a new self-propagating malware that launches cryptojacking and DDoS attacks against Windows systems. The software operates ...

Malware that secretly mines Monero is becoming a real problem in the real world, with the number of different incidents growing with each week. For example, only this past week, three new attacks came ...

Illicit Monero-mining malware accounts for more than 4 percent of the XMR in circulation, and has created $57 million in profits for the bad guys. An academic analysis of cryptomining malware has ...

We’ve seen cryptocurrency hungry hackers hiding mining malware in Adobe Flash updates, and even in legitimate Windows updates, but now hackers are hiding it in cracked audio production software.

With Monero being relatively easy to mine compared to other cryptocurrencies, legitimate users and a bunch of nefarious users are working hard to mine the valuable digital currency. The value of ...

A massive cyptocurrency mining botnet has taken over half a million machines, and may have made its cybercriminal controllers millions of dollars. The whole operation is powered by EternalBlue, the ...

Israeli security firm Check Point uncovered a large-scale cryptocurrency mining operation which installed malware on servers running Jenkins, an automation software designed for web development. The ...

Just weeks after the discovery of a variant of the Satori botnet targeting computers dedicated to mining cryptocurrency to steal Ethereum coins, researchers have found another botnet mining ...

According to a report from security firm Avast, the cryptocurrency-hacking software is the culprit behind the big scam that happened this week. Like any other digital currencies, Monero is a target of ...