At the Black Hat 2014 conference in Las Vegas, Rob Ragan and Oscar Salazar, penetration testers from Bishop Fox, demonstrated a technique for cloud-based bitcoin mining that cost them exactly…nothing.

With Bitcoin’s increased popularity and steadily rising value, cybercriminals have turned to malware as a means of infecting user’s PCs to install cryptocurrency mining software which mines for ...

IBM experts believe the Mirai botnet may soon evolve to mine for cryptocurrency iStock A malicious botnet called Mirai, which last year took down a huge swathe of the web in the US using the power of ...

As the cryptocurrency craze continues to surge among users, despite the unpredictable and volatile nature of digital currencies, opportunistic cybercriminals are constantly developing fresh techniques ...

The Mirai botnet, developed to compromise insecure Internet of Things (IoT) devices and perform distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against predetermined targets, could be re-purposed to mine ...

BOSTON (Reuters) - Cyber criminals have infected hundreds of thousands of computers with a virus called "Pony" to steal bitcoins and other digital currencies, in the most ambitious cyber attack on ...

Bitcoins have almost tripled in value in a month. In late February one bitcoin was worth £22 ($33) but now each one sells for about £60 ($90). Thieves who run networks of hijacked PCs are increasingly ...

A video games company has agreed to settle a case in which it was accused of hijacking its customers' computers to create Bitcoins. It had been alleged about 14,000 of its customers' PCs had been used ...

BOSTON (Reuters) - Cyber criminals have infected hundreds of thousands of computers with a virus called "Pony" to steal bitcoins and other digital currencies, in the most ambitious cyber attack on ...