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mining

16 articles

Scam e-mails from “cloud-mining platform”
  • scam

Bitcoin-cloud mining scam

Scammers are pretending to offer users tens of thousands of dollars, supposedly accumulated in an account on an “automated cloud-mining platform”.

  • Olga Altukhova (Svistunova)

  • March 24, 2023

Miners in 2022: figures, trends, how to protect yourself
  • miners

Prices down, miners up

In 2022, cryptocurrency prices fell sharply, but malicious miners are more active than ever.

  • Julia Glazova

  • November 15, 2022

How fake sellers are stealing bitcoins from buyers of sought-after mining equipment
  • scam

Cryptoscam with fake mining equipment

How fake sellers are stealing bitcoins from buyers of sought-after mining equipment.

  • Mikhail Sytnik

  • April 19, 2021

  • mining

Miners in your office

Cybercriminals may use your resources for cryptocurrency mining. How you can prevent it.

  • Nikolay Pankov

  • June 20, 2019

  • cryptojacking

Rise of the cryptojackers

Despite the plunge in cryptocurrency values, not only has cryptojacking not declined, it is growing rapidly.

  • Marvin the Robot

  • March 12, 2019

  • Ransomware

Rakhni Trojan: To encrypt and to mine

The Rakhni encrypting ransomware, known since 2013, is now trying its hand at mining Monero.

  • Leonid Grustniy

  • July 6, 2018

  • miners

Who is mining on your server?

Cybercriminals have realized that infecting servers is much more profitable than mining on home users’ computers.

  • Nikolay Pankov

  • July 4, 2018

Cryptomining is booming, with more than 2.7 million users attacked in 2017–2018. Ransomware, however, is in serious decline.
  • miners

Cryptominers gain ground

As we predicted at the end of 2017, malicious cryptomining is booming in 2018, up by 44%.

  • Sarah Pike

  • June 27, 2018

Roaming Mantis infects smartphones via wi-fi routers
  • smartphones

Roaming Mantis infects smartphones through Wi-Fi routers

Originally targeting users from Japan, Korea, and China, Roaming Mantis is quickly spreading worldwide, infecting smartphones through hacked wi-fi routers.

  • Alex Drozhzhin

  • May 18, 2018

  • miners

Hidden miners on Google Play

Hidden miners detected in soccer and VPN apps on Google Play — steer clear!

  • Leonid Grustniy

  • April 4, 2018

From ransomware to Web miners
  • threats

How hidden mining threatens your business

Cybercriminals weaponize hidden mining. We tell you how it works and how to protect your company

  • Yaroslava Ryabova

  • March 7, 2018

  • threats

Evil pics in Telegram

Cybercriminals attack Telegram users with an old trick for masking malware as pictures.

  • Leonid Grustniy

  • February 13, 2018

Web miners in YouTube ads
  • threats

Cryptocurrency miners in Youtube ads

While you’re watching YouTube, someone might just be using your device to mine cryptocurrency.

  • Leonid Grustniy

  • February 5, 2018

  • threats

Scrimping on software could blow a hole in your budget

Hacked programs freely distributed online are found to be equipped with a hidden NiceHash cryptocurrency miner.

  • Leonid Grustniy

  • January 2, 2018

  • predictions

2017: What was and what will be

What 2017 will be remembered for, which of our experts’ predictions came true, and what they think about the future

  • Marvin the Robot

  • December 11, 2017

  • threats

Got any hidden miners? I wouldn’t be so sure…

Fraudsters make a fortune mining cryptocurrencies — on your computer, at your expense, and without your knowledge.

  • Yaroslava Ryabova

  • September 12, 2017

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