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Hundreds Of websites mining cryptocurrency without user consent
Previously it was reported that torrent search platform The Pirate Bay and other popular sites have been using…
October 14, 2017
The Pirate Bay Caught Secretly Running Cryptocurrency Miner Again
In September 2017, we reported that The Pirate Bay (TPB) was running a cryptocurrency miner provided by CoinHive. The code used visitor’s…
October 12, 2017
Hackers are compromising websites to mine cryptocoins via user’s CPU
For the last couple of weeks, the trend of inserting code in websites that generate cryptocurrency has been…
October 9, 2017
CloudFlare Boots Off Torrent Site For Using Cryptocurrency Miner
CloudFlare says sites running mining code without notifying users are considered to be malware. In the last couple of weeks,…
October 5, 2017
Chinese Bitcoin Trading Exchange Blames User For Losing $3M
Popular Chinese Bitcoin Trading Exchange Denies Hacking Rumors And Blames Customer For Poor Security. Phishing scams against digital…
October 3, 2017
South Korea Blames North Korean Hackers For Stealing Bitcoin
North Korean State-Sponsored Hackers Attacked Four Virtual Currency Exchanges in Seoul- Report Reveals. North Korea is being held…
September 27, 2017
After The Pirate Bay, Showtime Websites Also Found Mining Cryptocoins
It has only been a week since The Pirate Bay admitted to discreetly running a crypto miner to…
September 26, 2017
How SS7 Flaw Can Be Used to Hack Gmail ID and Bitcoin Wallet
An old vulnerability in the Signalling System No. 7 (SS7) telecom network protocol was used by Positive Technologies…
September 21, 2017
The Pirate Bay Caught Running Cryptocurrency Mining Script
In 2015, it was reported that uTorrent was secretly installing Epic Scale Bitcoin mining software on users’ computer…
September 17, 2017
Spam Campaigns Using Trickbot Banking Trojan Against Cryptocurrencies
Spam Campaigns Using Trickbot Banking Trojan on the Rise Targeting Cryptocurrencies and Non-traditional currencies. A campaign involving Trickbot…
September 5, 2017