Security researchers last year wrote about a surge in the use by threat actors of the legitimate XMRig cryptominer, and cybersecurity firm Expel is now outlining the widening number of malicious ways ...

Cryptominer WinstarNssmMiner is an aggressive malware strain that has launched 500,000 attacks in the past three days earning criminals $28,000. Hackers behind cryptominer attacks are growing more ...

CrowdStrike is warning that a phishing campaign is impersonating the cybersecurity company in fake job offer emails to trick targets into infecting themselves with a Monero cryptocurrency miner (XMRig ...

Threat actors are exploiting misconfigured web applications used for security training and internal penetration testing, such ...

Law enforcement takedown causes Retadup malware to eat itself. A French and U.S. law-enforcement effort has neutralized 850,000 infections by a cryptomining worm known as Retadup, by causing the ...

The RapperBot campaign is bringing in some fresh talent to its arsenal of malware beats, adding cryptomining capability to its existing distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) botnet malware in order to ...

The new campaign has affected over 3,500,000 users in Thailand, over 1,830,000 in Vietnam and over 1,130, 000 in Egypt Dado Ruvic/Reuters A new cryptocurrency mining campaign has infected over 15 ...

A series of high-profile compromises targeting popular open source packages have been uncovered, exposing the growing risk of malicious code infiltration in widely used software tools. Threat actors ...

Cyber criminals are using unusually credible fake Adobe Flash updates to push Monero cryptocurrency mining malware, researchers have found. While fake Flash updates are typically poorly disguised, a ...