In the last months, we stumbled upon some JavaScript files apparently used to mine cryptocurrencies directly within the browser. For a long time now, cybercriminals have taken advantage of ...

A virtual currency mining script is embedded immediately by exploiting the JavaScript custom function added to Excel Microsoft announced May 7, 2018 that adding JavaScript custom functions to Excel ...

Hackers are now injecting cryptocurrency mining scripts into web advertising platforms to make a quick buck, security researchers have found. Trend Micro wrote in a blog post Wednesday that its ...

Hacked routers running the Coinhive script for mining cryptocurrency have been injected with new code to mint digital coins after Coinhive service shut down. The end of the Coinhive service resulted ...

Yesterday when I visited our TWC Forum, which runs on vBulletin software, my security software threw up this warning: https:// coinhive dot com /lib/coinhive.js Object file detected, download blocked ...

Web-based cryptocurrency mining, also known as cryptojacking or drive-by mining, never stood a chance to become an alternative revenue stream or replace classic ads. According to new academic research ...

If you experienced a sudden drop of performance when visiting Politifact on Friday, it was most likely because the popular fact-checking website was fast busy taxing your computer’s resources to make ...

Opportunistic cybercriminals are capitalizing on the death of basketball legend Kobe Bryant earlier this week by setting booby-traps for those searching for mementos of the star. According to a tweet ...

The Pirate Bay last month surprised many by using visitors' CPUs for mining Monero without alerting them. The internet was soon in a frenzy over the operators of the m ost visited torrent site in the ...

Researchers at Mitiga revealed in a blog post Friday an AWS AMI for a Windows 2008 virtual server hosted by an unverified vendor is infected with a Monero mining script. The malware would have ...