A Google Chrome extension has been caught secretly sapping users’ device resources to mine for cryptocurrency, a practice that can cause serious issues like overheating and irreversible battery damage ...

A newly-discovered form of cryptocurrency-mining malware is capable of remaining so well-hidden that researchers investigating it found that it had spread to almost every computer at a company that ...

Malicious online actors can infect your organization’s computers with malware, turning them into cryptomining machines hunting for bitcoin and wasting energy in the process. The price of bitcoin, the ...

Cryptojacking. It’s not as loud as ransomware or headline-grabbing data breaches, but it’s quietly draining resources and racking up costs. Instead of locking you out of your systems, cryptojacking ...

Web crooks are making money by forcing PCs and other devices to mine cryptocurrency for them according to new research. Cryptojacking malware uses stealth: it secretly infects a victim's computer or ...

(in)Secure is a weekly column that dives into the rapidly escalating topic of cybersecurity. Making money from mining cryptocurrencies isn’t just something that people do with their own hardware, ...

Cybersecurity can feel like a chaotic free-for-all sometimes, but it's not every day that a whole new conceptual type of attack crops up. Over the last 15 months, though, cryptojacking has been ...

The rise of cryptocurrency has resulted in a number of concerns. Yet while regulations and cryptocurrency hacks seem to be the primary worries, a new threat known as “cryptojacking” has entered the ...

Hackers took advantage of an unpatched Drupal vulnerability in the organization’s website to launch a cryptojacking attack. Hackers have been stealing CPU-cycles from visitors to the Make-A-Wish ...

Cyber-criminals aren't stupid. If you find a way to block their code, they're going to find a way to around your block. That's how it's been for decades in the antivirus business, and this is exactly ...

v. Swiping computer processing power through a web browser to illicitly mint cryptocurrency. People who streamed the TV drama Billions last fall may have been hit by some real-life financial ...

Right now, your computer might be using its memory and processor power – and your electricity – to generate money for someone else, without you ever knowing. It’s called “cryptojacking,” and it is an ...