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Coinhive Miners Found in Android Apps, WordPress Sites

Besides the malicious apps, last week, WordPress WAF providers like Sucuri and Wordfence have both sounded the alarm on an increase in hacked websites altered to deploy cryptocurrency miners ... read more

Crypto-Currency Miner Hits Thousands of Sites via Accessibility Script

The ongoing challenge of unauthorized crypto-currency mining has taken a new turn, with thousands of websites having been ... McKay stated. “The exploit was active for a period of four hours ... read more

Researcher finds 50,000 sites infected with cryptocurrency mining malware

The cryptocurrency mining malware epidemic ... at least 48,953 affected websites. He adds that at least 7,368 of the compromised sites are powered by WordPress. The researcher notes that ... read more

400 Websites Secretly Served Cryptocurrency Miners to Visitors

Thanks to a hacker, websites for the San Diego Zoo, the government of Chihuahua, Mexico, and PC maker Lenovo were all briefly serving cryptocurrency miners to unsuspecting visitors this past weekend. read more

Surreptitious cryptocurrency miners hide on Politifact and hundreds of other sites

Politifact is the latest and perhaps most high-profile website to have hosted code that secretly hijacks visitors’ CPUs to mine cryptocurrency ... speaking a virus or exploit. read more

Hundreds of big-name sites hacked, converted into drive-by currency miners

Sites that were hacked ... they run automated scripts that exploit the vulnerability. Besides using the flaw to run scripts that perform drive-by cryptocurrency mining on visitors' computers ... read more

Hacker arrested after exploiting 5,000 accounts in $4.5 million cryptojacking scheme

Authorities traced the breach to a 35-year-old who systematically exploited the company's security vulnerabilities. Using data gathered from public sources since 2018, the hacker compromised over ... read more

How cryptocurrency miners can hack your computer on public Wi-Fi for big gains

To keep the process clean, the developer injected only one line of code which calls a cryptocurrency miner. Arnau was able to successfully recreate the exploit described in the Starbucks case ... read more

Hackers Breached Hundreds Of Companies’ AI Servers, Researchers Say

Cyberattacks target AI compute power to mine cryptocurrency using a vulnerability in popular open source software called Ray, according to researchers at Oligo Security. Hackers may have breached ... read more