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Coin Hive again enters spotlight as UFC site caught mining coins using visitors’ computers

07

Nov

2017

Ultimate Fighting Championship (ufc.com) is the latest service to come under fire for running Coin Hive’s Monero mining scheme, using site visitors’ CPU power to mine cryptocurrency for a fast buck. After The Pirate Bay ran a test to see if it could monetize traffic without ads by using JavaScript cryptocurrency mining code, UFC stands […]

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SSH-based Hijacker Targeting Ethereum Miners

02

Nov

2017

Crypto-currency miners represent an easy solution when it comes to taking advantage of a system’s computing power to earn some money, but can result in no gain if the mined coins are going to someone else’s wallet. In a recent example of how users could end up with no cash despite putting their computers to […]

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Got any hidden miners? I wouldn’t be so sure…

12

Sep

2017

Cryptocurrency mining is an IT industry buzzword and a rapidly growing phenomenon. As part of this far-reaching trend, more and more people take up “mining,” or adding blocks to a blockchain and getting rewarded for it with cryptocurrency. In doing so, these miners come up with more and more ingenious ways, not all of which […]

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