IBM Security X-Force researchers studied the botnet activity of a malware variant that is used by cyber crime groups to illegally mine cryptocurrency. Examining two ShellBot botnets that appeared in…
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Criminals are mailing altered Ledger devices to steal cryptocurrency
Scammers are sending fake replacement devices to Ledger customers exposed in a recent data breach that are used to steal cryptocurrency wallets. […]
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Criminals are mailing hacked Ledger devices to steal cryptocurrency
Scammers are sending fake replacement devices to Ledger customers exposed in a recent data breach that are used to steal cryptocurrency wallets. […]
Scammers mail fake Ledger devices to steal your cryptocurrency
Scammers are sending fake replacement devices to Ledger customers exposed in a recent data breach that are used to steal cryptocurrency wallets. […]
Microsoft warns of cryptomining attacks on Kubernetes clusters
Microsoft warns of an ongoing series of attacks compromising Kubernetes clusters running Kubeflow machine learning (ML) instances to deploy malicious containers that mine for Monero and Ethereum cryptocurrency. […]
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Hands on with Norton antivirus Ethereum mining: The good and the bad
Last week, NortonLifelock announced that the Norton 360 antivirus suite would soon be able to mine Ethereum cryptocurrency while the computer is idle. In this article, we go hands-on with the new ‘Norton Crypto’ feature to show what’s good about it and what’s bad. […]
Norton 360 antivirus now lets you mine Ethereum cryptocurrency
NortonLifelock has added the ability to mine Ethereum cryptocurrency directly within its Norton 360 antivirus program as a way to “protect” users from malicious mining software. […]
Hetzner cloud server provider bans cryptocurrency mining
Popular German cloud hosting and dedicated server provider Hetzner has banned cryptomining on its servers after users have been using their large storage devices to mine Chia. […]