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Cryptomining Malware

Crypto Mining Malwares – One of the Most Practiced Attacks During 2018

Due to hard detection and easy execution of the attack, 2018 has seen excessive crypto mining malware. Cryptojacking attacks are based on cryptocurrency mining software injection into thousands of devices, leveraging its processing capabilities to extract the digital assests without the user’s consent. As a result, the victims’ computer equipment slows down, as well as […]

Crypto Mining Malware Infects Make-A-Wish-Foundation Website

Cyber criminals seem to have reached a new low, as they have targeted the site of one of the most popular children’s foundations in the world and infected it with crypto mining malware. Who would have thought that out of desperation, cybercriminals would even not spare children’s foundation website. Researchers from security firm Trustwave In […]

Hackers Abusing Legitimate Googlebot Services to Inject Cryptomining Malware

Cybercriminals now abusing the legitimate Googlebot server using fake User-Agent from another Google service to deliver Crypto-currency malware to the target victims network. Googlebot is providing legitimate traffic to the website which is to appear in Google search engine results. Googlebot works by crawling the each and every updated link in your website to allow […]