Cryptominers made $100,000 from mining at an Airbnb for three weeks — the guests ran up a $1,500 electricity bill
A popular Airbnb host has been forced to implement a bizarre new rule when renting her house to guests: no crypto-mining. The […]
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Cryptominer with palm-sized $179 ASIC hits the jackpot with $206,000 in Bitcoins
A Bitcoin miner using an open-source Bitaxe mining rig won the Bitcoin lottery by mining a complete block worth 6.25BTC. With one […]
Crypto Mining Rigs Hidden in Polish Court Building to Steal Electricity
A number of powerful computing devices were found secreted within the Supreme Administrative Court in Warsaw, Poland. They weren’t installed to collect […]
Bitcoin and Its Likely Impact on the Threat Landscape
Bitcoin, the first blockchain-based cryptocurrency, was created by Satoshi Nakamoto in 2008 and released to the public in 2009. It is a […]
Have Crypto-Miners Infiltrated Your Public Cloud?
How do you know if bad actors are siphoning off your power and racking up huge bills for your organization? These silent […]
Hadoop YARN: An Assessment of the Attack Surface and Its Exploits
TL;DR Rate of Hadoop YARN exploits is slowing but still at a concerning 350,000 events per day 1065 servers are exposed and […]
Top Cryptomining Malware. Top Ransomware.
In 2018, cryptominers have emerged as the leading attack vector used by cybercriminals to gain access into others systems. Cryptominers are getting advanced […]
Malicious Cryptocurrency Mining: The Road Ahead
As cryptomining continues to rule the cybercrime scenario, cybercriminals are designing innovative ways to drain people’s cryptowallets. Scammers are still doing their […]
Raising the Bar for Ethical Cryptocurrency Mining
In our last article, we discussed how cybercriminals are launching drive-by mining attacks to gain access to people’s crypto-wallets. In this article, […]
Drive-By Cryptomining: Another Way Cyber-Criminals Are Trying to Evade Detection
By the end of the last year, we saw a drastic rise in drive-by cryptocurrency mining activities and it is quite alarming […]