ZDNet

This new cryptojacking malware uses a sneaky trick to remain hidden

A newly-discovered form of cryptocurrency-mining malware is capable of remaining so well-hidden that researchers investigating it found that it had spread to almost every computer at a company that ...
Threat Post

Hackers Crack Pirated Games with Cryptojacking Malware

Threat actors have so far made about $2 million from Crackonosh, which secretly mines Monero cryptocurrency from affected devices. A new Monero cryptojacking malware distributed via “cracked” versions ...
ZDNet

Meet CoinStomp: New cryptojacking malware targets Asian cloud service providers

Dubbed CoinStomp, the malware is compromised of shell scripts that "attempt to exploit cloud compute instances hosted by cloud service providers for the purpose of mining cryptocurrency," according to ...
TechNewsWorld

Researchers Track Linux Intrusions to Cryptojacking Gang

Bitdefender security researchers have uncovered a Romanian-based threat group active since at least last year targeting Linux-based machines with weak Secure Shell Protocol (SSH) credentials. The ...
The Journal

K12 Schools See Massive Spike in Malware and CryptoJacking in First Half of 2023

Education organizations in the United States are experiencing a “massive spike” in malware, encrypted threats, and cryptojacking so far this year, even as ransomware attacks have slowed, according to ...
CoinTelegraph

Researchers Say 50,000 Servers Worldwide Infected With Privacy Coin Cryptojacking Malware

As many as 50,000 servers worldwide have allegedly been infected with an advanced cryptojacking malware that mines the privacy-focused open source cryptocurrency turtlecoin (TRTL). The news was ...
Graham Cluley

Pirated copies of Final Cut Pro infect Macs with cryptojacking malware

Hopefully everyone reading this knows that Macs can be infected by malware, just like PCs. And hopefully any Mac user reading this blog knows that they should be running anti-virus software on their ...
Infosecurity-magazine.com

New Cryptojacking Malware Variant Targeting Cloud Systems Discovered

A new variant of cryptojacking malware from threat group TeamTnT has been uncovered by Palo Alto Networks’ threat intelligence team, Unit 42. The malware, named Black-T, “gives evidence of a shift in ...
Bleeping Computer

RapperBot DDoS malware adds cryptojacking as new revenue stream

New samples of the RapperBot botnet malware have added cryptojacking capabilites to mine for cryptocurrency on compromised Intel x64 machines. The change occurred gradually, with developers first ...
ReadWrite

Cryptojacking Malware: What It Is and How to Fix It

Jon Schram is the founder and CEO of The Purple Guys, the Midwest’s premier IT support company voted Best in Customer Service with a 97.3… CEO and Founder of The Purple Guys CEO and Founder of The ...
CoinDesk

US Energy Department Floats Solution to Illicit Crypto Mining Malware

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) are asking the private sector for help in commercializing a super-powerful cryptojacking detection algorithm that government officials believe can ...