Android Malware Mines Digital Cryptocurrency

On its surface, the idea of turning a smartphone into a cryptocurrency mining machine sounds novel. But practical and profitable? Not so much. That hasn’t stopped thieves from corrupting a number of popular Android applications for just that purpose, including two on the Google Play store called...

Cpuminer - CPU miner for Litecoin and Bitcoin

cpuminer is a multi-threaded, highly optimized CPU miner for Litecoin, Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Currently supported algorithms are SHA-256d and scrypt1024, 1, 1. It supports the getwork mining protocol as well as the Stratum mining protocol, and can be used for both solo and pooled...