What is Cryptojacking Attack ❓ Definition and Prevention

Introduction A conceivable threat to cryptocurrency owners, cryptojacking is an attack using which threat attackers can mine cryptocurrency at the expenditure of the target’s resources and network health. If not managed properly at the premature stage, the consequences of this vulnerability can b...

Annual Protest to ‘Fight Krebs’ Raises €150K+

In 2018, KrebsOnSecurity unmasked the creators of Coinhive -- a now-defunct cryptocurrency mining service that was being massively abused by cybercriminals -- as the administrators of a popular German language image-hosting forum. In protest of that story, forum members donated hundreds of...

Cryptojacking in the post-Coinhive era

September 2017 is widely recognized as the month in which the phenomenon that became cryptojacking began. The idea that website owners could monetize their traffic by having visitors mine for cryptocurrencies in their browser was not new, but this time around it became mainstream, thanks to an...

Annual Protest Raises $250K to Cure Krebs

For the second year in a row, denizens of a large German-language online forum have donated more than USD $250,000 to cancer research organizations in protest of a story KrebsOnSecurity published in 2018 that unmasked the creators of Coinhive, a now-defunct cryptocurrency mining service that was...

The Pirate Bay’s preferred cryptominer Coinhive shutting down next week

By Waqas The Pirate Bay was caught twice secretly mining Monero cryptocurrency using Javascript powered by Coinhive. Popular in-browser crypto-mining service will be shutting down from March 9th, 2019 much to the dismay of hackers who loved it quite ardently. The reason behind this decision,...

Coinhive to Mine Its Last Monero in March

Coinhive, the company behind an eponymous browser-based cryptocurrency miner, is closing its doors. As of March 8, the 18-month-old company will discontinue its service, because, it announced, the model “isn’t economically viable anymore.” Coinhive bills itself as a legitimate service for website...

Hackers Favorite CoinHive Cryptocurrency Mining Service Shutting Down

Coinhive, a notorious in-browser cryptocurrency mining service popular among cybercriminals, has announced that it will discontinue its services on March 8, 2019. Regular readers of The Hacker News already know how Coinhive's service helped cyber criminals earn hundreds of thousands of dollars by...

Hackers Favorite CoinHive Cryptocurrency Mining Service Shutting Down

Coinhive, a notorious in-browser cryptocurrency mining service popular among cybercriminals, has announced that it will discontinue its services on March 8, 2019. Regular readers of The Hacker News already know how Coinhive's service helped cyber criminals earn hundreds of thousands of dollars by...

Crypto Mining Service Coinhive to Call it Quits

Roughly one year ago, KrebsOnSecurity published a lengthy investigation into the individuals behind Coinhive.com, a cryptocurrency mining service that has been heavily abused to force hacked Web sites to mine virtual currency. On Tuesday, Coinhive announced plans to pull the plug on the project...

Eight Cryptojacking Apps Booted From Microsoft Store

Microsoft booted eight malicious apps from its official desktop and mobile app store after researchers found the programs surreptitiously mined for Monero cryptocurrency. Researchers who discovered the apps said that an unspecified, but significant number, of users may have downloaded the rogue...

Fake browser update seeks to compromise more MikroTik routers

This blog post was authored by @hasherezade and Jérôme Segura. MikroTik, a Latvian company that makes routers and ISP wireless systems, has been dealing with several vulnerabilities affecting its products' operating system over the past few months. Ever since a critical flaw in RouterOS was...

CoinHive intelligent web mining two or three thing-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Mining has now become black hat profit, the main means of recently Internet by chance found part of the website is hung it to exist after the web mining behavior, different from the conventional virusoperating systemin the mining acts, pages mainly on the site hanging on the malicious JS scripts,...

Qualys BrowserCheck CoinBlocker Protects Users From Active Cryptojacking Campaigns

Qualys Malware Research Labs recently released the Qualys BrowserCheck CoinBlocker Chrome Extension. We have seen enthusiastic adoption from users across the globe in the first week since its release, which has given us enough telemetry data to indicate success in protecting users from popular...

Hackers Infect Over 200,000 MikroTik Routers With Crypto Mining Malware

Security researchers have discovered at least three massive malware campaigns exploiting hundreds of thousands of unpatched MikroTik routers to secretly install cryptocurrency miners on computers connected to them. In all, the malware campaigns have compromised more than 210,000 routers from...

Hackers Infect Over 200,000 MikroTik Routers With Crypto Mining Malware

Security researchers have discovered at least three massive malware campaigns exploiting hundreds of thousands of unpatched MikroTik routers to secretly install cryptocurrency miners on computers connected to them. In all, the malware campaigns have compromised more than 210,000 routers from...

CoinHive URL Shortener Abused to Secretly Mine Cryptocurrency Using Hacked Sites

Security researchers have been warning about a new malicious campaign that leverages an alternative scheme to mine cryptocurrencies without directly injecting the infamous CoinHive JavaScript into thousands of hacked websites. Coinhive is a popular browser-based service that offers website owners...

CoinHive URL Shortener Abused to Secretly Mine Cryptocurrency Using Hacked Sites

Security researchers have been warning about a new malicious campaign that leverages an alternative scheme to mine cryptocurrencies without directly injecting the infamous CoinHive JavaScript into thousands of hacked websites. Coinhive is a popular browser-based service that offers website owners...

Obfuscated Coinhive shortlink reveals larger mining operation

During the past several months, in-browser mining has continued to affect a large number of websites, predominantly relying on Coinhive's infamous API. We documented several campaigns on this blog, in particular Drupalgeddon, where attackers are taking advantage of vulnerabilities in popular...

Drupalgeddon 2.0 Still Haunting 115K+ Sites

More than 115,000 sites are still vulnerable to a highly critical Drupal bug – even though a patch was released three months ago. When it was first revealed, the bug, which has been dubbed Drupalgeddon 2.0, impacted an estimated 1+ million sites running Drupal – including major U.S. educational...

Microsoft Adds Support for JavaScript in Excel—What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

Shortly after Microsoft announced support for custom JavaScript functions in Excel, someone demonstrated what could possibly go wrong if this feature is abused for malicious purposes. As promised last year at Microsoft's Ignite 2017 conference, the company has now brought custom JavaScript...