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cryptojacking malware

2019 Being The Year Of Cryptojacking, Confirmed By IBM

All End Point products used by enterprises supplied by antivirus vendors are not yet ready for the newest weapon by cybercriminals, cryptojacking. Also, known as cryptocurrency mining malware, they are designed to work in the background, not causing readily perceptible while causing hardware to perform computations in hopes to mine cryptocurrencies for its authors. Such […]

Death Of Coinhive: Status Of Cryptojacking Malware

The age of ransomware is slowly ending, not because it is losing steam, its authors continue to earn profit from poor victims that do not have an effective backup system to restore their locked files. Ransomware era is ending, because virus authors want to switch to a better technique in earning money through the use […]

CookieMiner, An Active MacOS-based Cryptojacking Malware In The Wild Exposed

The very prolific Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 has made a huge discovery again, as they revealed to the public another cryptocurrency mining malware. Known as CookieMiner, it is a new crypto mining virus that specifically developed to target Mac hardware. Using cookies connected with login under MyEtherWallet, an interface service supporting Ethereum. “It sparked […]