July 31, 2018

What is… cryptojacking?

The dark side of cryptomining.

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July 30, 2018

Google bans Android miners from Play Store

Google has cracked down on apps that mine for cryptocurrency, banning them entirely from its official Google Play Store.

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July 19, 2018

Trends in malware – ransomware, cryptojacking, what next? [PODCAST]

Catch up with Day 3 of our Security SOS Week - here's the third episode of our week-long online security summit.

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March 17, 2018

5 Protective Ps to help you prevent network takeovers [VIDEO]

Recently, we've seen crooks unleashing ransomware and cryptojacking on whole networks at a time - so here are 5 tips to defend yourself.

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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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March 09, 2018

Cryptomining versus cryptojacking – what’s the difference?

When cryptomining is done on the sly, it turns into cryptojacking - a crime that has become a serious global problem. Here's what to do...

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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 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

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February 14, 2018

Cryptojacking: the crooks get the money, but you pay the bill [PODCAST]

Fraser Howard of SophosLabs teaches us about cryptojacking - where crooks mine for cryptocurrency, but someone else pays for the electricity.

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