March 19, 2020

Cryptojacking is almost conquered – crushed along with Coinhive

Cryptojacking may not be entirely gone following the shutdown of notorious cryptomining service Coinhive - but it's drastically diminished.

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September 24, 2018

Cryptojacking apps return to Google Play Market

At least 25 Android apps on the official Google Play store contain code that mines cryptocurrencies in the background.

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March 13, 2018

Cryptomining isn’t going to make you rich

Is cryptomining-with-consent the simple alternative to web advertising that some publishers think it is? Perhaps not.

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February 27, 2018

Unsecured AWS led to cryptojacking attack on LA Times

Cryptojackers have been discovered sneaking mining code on to a big brand’s website through the back door of a poorly secured Amazon AWS (Amazon Web Service) S3 bucket.

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February 14, 2018

Watch our ads or we’ll use your CPU for cryptomining

The Salon news site is offering users a blunt choice: turn off your adblocker or let the site use your browser to mine cryptocurrency.

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February 01, 2018

Cryptominers on Google Play: how Sophos protects customers

SophosLabs has discovered a new, worrisome dimension to the trend of attackers targeting Android mobile users for cryptocurrency mining

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December 19, 2017

Web-based cryptominers are malware

Cryptominers running in a browser without an organization's consent are parasitic and should be considered malware

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December 14, 2017

Starbucks Wi-Fi hijacked customers’ laptops to mine cryptocoins

A 10-second delay when customers connected to the "free" Wi-Fi was harnessed for secret cryptocoin mining

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