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The Pirate Bay Caught Secretly Running Cryptocurrency Miner Again

By Waqas In September 2017, we reported that The Pirate Bay TPB was running This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: The Pirate Bay Caught Secretly Running Cryptocurrency Miner Again...

Blockchain: Are You Ready?

By now, most of us have heard of Bitcoin. Few of us really know the specifics about what that is. Fewer still have a workable or even cursory knowledge of the underlying technology that makes Bitcoin possible...

CloudFlare Boots Off Torrent Site For Using Cryptocurrency Miner

By Waqas CloudFlare says sites running mining code without notifying users are considered to This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: CloudFlare Boots Off Torrent Site For Using Cryptocurrency Miner...

Hackers Exploiting Microsoft Servers to Mine Monero - Makes $63,000 In 3 Months

Mining cryptocurrencies can be a costly investment as it takes a monstrous amount of computing power, and thus hackers have started using malware that steals computing resources of computers it hijacks to make lots of dollars in digital currency. Security researchers at security firm ESET have...

After The Pirate Bay, Showtime Websites Also Found Mining Cryptocoins

By Uzair Amir It has only been a week since The Pirate Bay This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: After The Pirate Bay, Showtime Websites Also Found Mining Cryptocoins...

Drive-by mining and ads: The Wild Wild West

There seems to be a trend lately for publishers to monetize their traffic by having their visitors mine for cryptocurrencies while on their site. The idea is that you are accessing content for free and in exchange, your computer its CPU in particular will be used for mining purposes. The Pirate B...

Multiple Websites Mine Cryptocurrencies CPU Hijacking

A CPU hijacking vulnerability exists in multiple web servers. A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability using one of the following miners: CoinHive, CryptoLoot, MineMyTraffic, ProjectPoi and JSECoin. Successful exploitation allows a remote attacker to use a clients CPU for currency mining...

Threatpost News Wrap, September 22, 2017

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook recap the news of the week and look back at the Equifax saga so far. They also discuss a Google HTTPS warnings paper, cryptocurrency mining at the Pirate Bay, and bringing machine learning to passwords. Download: ThreatpostNewsWrapSeptember222017.mp3 Show notes: Equifa...

The Pirate Bay Caught Running Browser-Based Cryptocurrency Miner

The world's popular torrent download website, The Pirate Bay, has again been in a new controversy—this time over secretly planting an in-browser cryptocurrency miner on its website that utilizes its visitors' CPU processing power in order to mine digital currencies. The Pirate Bay is the most...

Pirate Bay Spotted Hosting Monero Cryptocurrency Miner

A cryptocurrency miner surfaced on the world’s largest torrenting site for a day over the weekend, raising the ire of users unaware the tool was there, let alone leveraging their machine’s computing power. Users noticed the miner Friday night on The Pirate Bay, a site that acts as a treasure trov...

The Pirate Bay Caught Running Cryptocurrency Mining Script

By Waqas In 2015, it was reported that uTorrent was secretly installing This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: The Pirate Bay Caught Running Cryptocurrency Mining Script...

Miners on the Rise

Miners are a class of malware whose popularity has grown substantially this year. The actual process of cryptocurrency mining is perfectly legal, though there are groups of people who hoodwink unwitting users into installing mining software on their computers, or exploiting software vulnerabiliti...

Why Is North Korea So Interested in Bitcoin?

In 2016 we began observing actors we believe to be North Korean utilizing their intrusion capabilities to conduct cyber crime, targeting banks and the global financial system. This marked a departure from previously observed activity of North Korean actors employing cyber espionage for traditiona...

Why Is North Korea So Interested in Bitcoin?

In 2016 we began observing actors we believe to be North Korean utilizing their intrusion capabilities to conduct cyber crime, targeting banks and the global financial system. This marked a departure from previously observed activity of North Korean actors employing cyber espionage for traditiona...

Satoshi Bomb

Let us discuss what defines the profitability of bitcoin mining, what principles for mining speed adaptation were initially embedded into it, and why these principles can lead to the failure of the cryptocurrency in the long run. We assume that the reader has an idea of basic Bitcoin mechanics su...

IDN Homograph Attack Spreading Betabot Backdoor

An IDN homograph attack leveraging Adobe’s brand has been discovered, with the malicious site spreading the Betabot backdoor and ultimately infecting compromised machines with cryptocurrency-mining and data-stealing malware. Attacks using internationalized domain name homographs rely on users...

China Bans Fundraising Through Initial Coin Offering (ICO)

China's central bank today announced an immediate ban on all ICO—Initial Coin Offering—fundraising, to prevent fraud and illegal fundraising. ICO is the hottest new thing in the blockchain world, which is an alternative to crowdfunding that lets a firm raise funding from multiple sources. The...

Revamped Nukebot Malware Changes Targets, Adds Functions

A revamped version of the Nukebot banking trojan dubbed Jimmy Nukebot has shifted focus from stealing bankcard data and now acts as a conduit for quietly downloading malicious payloads for web-injects, cryptocurrency mining, and taking screenshots of targeted systems. The code is a modification o...

Neptune Exploit Kit Dropping Cryptocurrency Miners Through Malvertisements

Despite a marked decrease in activity, exploit kits haven’t completely disappeared just yet. The Neptune, or Terror Exploit Kit, is alive and well; during the last month, researchers have observed the kit as part of a campaign to abuse a legitimate popup ad service to drop cryptocurrency miners...