March 29, 2022

Horde of miner bots and backdoors leveraged Log4J to attack VMware Horizon servers

Threat Research

October 22, 2018

Maker of LuminosityLink RAT gets 30 months in the clink

Prosecutors said that the 21-year-old LuminosityLink author had no respect for the law and showed contempt for moral rules and social norms.

Naked Security

July 18, 2018

21-year-old spy tool developer faces prison

Luminosity RAT sold for as little as $39.99 and could spy, steal passwords, mine cryptocurrency, and launch DDoSes.

Naked Security

July 18, 2018

“Astoundingly stupid” Kodak (not really) Bitcoin miner bites the dust

Deemed a scam from its CES debut, Kodak says KashMiner was never licensed, and its promised payouts portrayed ignorance of how Bitcoin works.

Naked Security

March 06, 2018

“Big Bitcoin Heist” sees 600 Icelandic servers stolen

Police arrested 11 people but haven't found the hardware, which is worth nearly $2 million.

Naked Security

February 22, 2018

Tesla cryptojacked by currency miners

Tesla's Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud account was broken into by hackers who suckled at its computer power for cryptocurrency mining

Naked Security

February 15, 2018

Coinmining frenzy is making it hard for us to find aliens

As cryptocurrency values have soared, so too has the cost of the hardware needed to mine them - if you can even buy the GPUs, given the shortages.

Naked Security

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

Naked Security