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Who and What Is Coinhive?

March 26, 2018 admin A Little Sunshine, Andre Krumb, AuthedMine, Badges2Go UG, Blackberry, Blockchain Future, Browsealoud, cha0s, coinhive, Die Welt, Dominic Szablewski, Dustweb Inc., Eroxell Limited, Eroxell Ltd, g4m8l3r, Gamb, int13h, JavaScript, Lars-Marten Nagel, Malwarebytes, Mattias Moench, Politifact, pr0gramm, pr0miner, publicwww, Reinhard Fuerstberger, SHOWTIME, Starbucks, Suntainment SL, Sylvia Klein, The Los Angeles Times, Troy Mursch, UA-571256, Who is Coinhive?, Youtube

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2018 12:12:31 +0000

Multiple security firms recently identified cryptocurrency mining service Coinhive as the top malicious threat to Web users, thanks to the tendency for Coinhive’s computer code to be used on hacked Web sites to steal the processing power of its visitors’ devices. This post looks at how Coinhive vaulted to the top of the threat list less than a year after its debut, and explores clues about the possible identities of the individuals behind the service.

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MIRUS – a cryptomining virus

February 27, 2018 admin coinhive, File Infector, malware, miner, virus

Credit to Author: Preksha Saxena| Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2018 09:59:54 +0000

Cryptocurrencies are all the vogue now. This has resulted in the emergence of increasing cryptocurrency mining activities. Several platforms make mining services available to users. One such platform that provides JavaScript cryptocurrency miners for websites is CoinHive. Recently, we have analyzed a virus that infects user files with mining scripts. CoinHive is…

MalwareBytes Security

The state of malicious cryptomining

February 26, 2018 admin coin miners, coin-have, Coinbase, coinhive, crypto-loot, cryptocurrency, cryptomining, cybercrime, drive-by, malvertising, malware, monero

Credit to Author: Jérôme Segura| Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2018 16:08:03 +0000

From malware coin miners to drive-by mining, we review the state of malicious cryptomining in the past few months by looking at the most notable incidents and our own telemetry stats.

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Cybercrime

Tags: coin miners coin-have Coinbase coinhive crypto-loot cryptocurrency cryptomining drive-by malvertising malware monero

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MalwareBytes Security

Deepfakes FakeApp tool (briefly) includes cryptominer

February 23, 2018 admin coin mining, coinhive, crypto, deepfake, deepfakes, fake, fakeapp, miner, Mining, Security world, Technology

Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2018 17:20:00 +0000

We take a look at what happens when one of the most popular DIY Deepfakes programs decides to monetise with a spot of coin mining. Surprise: it doesn’t end well.

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Tags: coin mining coinhive crypto deepfake deepfakes fake fakeapp miner mining

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Drive-by download campaign targets Chinese websites, experiments with exploits

February 22, 2018 admin Chinese, coinhive, drive-by, EK, exploit kit, Exploits, Flash Player, Internet Explorer, svchost.exe, Threat analysis

Credit to Author: Jérôme Segura| Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2018 16:00:00 +0000

This custom made drive-by download attack targets some Chinese websites and their visitors while experimenting with exploits.

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Threat analysis

Tags: Chinese coinhive drive-by EK exploit kit exploits Flash Player Internet Explorer svchost.exe

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Drive-by cryptomining campaign targets millions of Android users

February 12, 2018 admin Android, Bot, CAPTCHA, coinhive, crypto mining, cryptomining, drive-by, Threat analysis

Credit to Author: Jérôme Segura| Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2018 14:00:24 +0000

Android users have been exposed to drive-by cryptomining in one of the largest campaigns that we have detected so far.

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Threat analysis

Tags: Android Bot CAPTCHA coinhive crypto mining cryptomining drive-by

MalwareBytes Security

Bank robbers 2.0: digital thievery and stolen cryptocoins

February 9, 2018 admin bak, coinhive, crypto-currency, cybercrime, jackpotting, malleability, Mt Gox, NiceHash, Pieter Arntz, robber, Technology

Credit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2018 19:57:07 +0000

A new generation of thieves, bank robbers 2.0, seek to steal huge amounts of money as anonymously as they can. So they’ve developed a multitude of ways to pilfer cryptocurrency.

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Tags: bak coinhive crypto-currency jackpotting malleability Mt Gox Nicehash Pieter Arntz robber

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Cryptominers on Google Play: how Sophos protects customers

February 1, 2018 admin Android, coinhive, CoinMiner, cryptocurrency, cryptomining, Google Play, smartphones, SophosLabs

Credit to Author: Bill Brenner| Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2018 17:38:24 +0000

SophosLabs has discovered a new, worrisome dimension to the trend of attackers targeting Android mobile users for cryptocurrency mining<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/cdLYcpn6-80″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>