Cryptojacking has recently exploded onto the cybercrime scene, thanks to the surge in value of cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, Monero, and Ethereum. Cryptojacking is an issue for business because ...

Software firm BlackBerry and tech giant Intel have joined the fight against crypto-mining malware with the launch of a detection tool for Intel’s commercial PCs. Dubbed the the BlackBerry Optics ...

The number of uses of malware that steals other people’s computing power to generate cryptocurrencies rose more than 600 per cent in the first quarter of 2018 in a sign that cyber criminals are ...

A new cryptojacking malware has the ability to disable cloud-based security measures to avoid detection on Linux servers, research by information security company Palo Alto Networks Jan. 17 reveals.

Cryptojacking is the unauthorised use of someone else’s computer to mine cryptocurrency. Under this umbrella, the most insidious form is ‘cryptomining’, which utilises malware to turn an unsuspecting ...

A Lithuanian national has been arrested for his alleged involvement in infecting 2.8 million systems with clipboard-stealing ...

Hopefully everyone reading this knows that Macs can be infected by malware, just like PCs. And hopefully any Mac user reading this blog knows that they should be running anti-virus software on their ...

New samples of the RapperBot botnet malware have added cryptojacking capabilites to mine for cryptocurrency on compromised Intel x64 machines. The change occurred gradually, with developers first ...

MALWARE is rife, especially when we’re all so dependent on connected devices these days. It can be hard to keep track of what’s what, with new threats emerging all the time, so here we explain ...

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