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Credit to Author: Tiziana Carboni| Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2018 06:36:25 +0000

Siamo andati su Facebook Live per spiegare come si sviluppa questa nuova ondata di cybercrime e darvi cinque suggerimenti per proteggervi.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/dkWnmM7kVls” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Malicious cryptomining and the blacklist conundrum

March 26, 2018 admin adblockers, blacklist, coinhive, cryptominers, cryptomining, GitHub, Threat analysis

Credit to Author: Jérôme Segura| Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2018 15:00:00 +0000

When threat actors take to free and disposable cloud services, the battle against malicious cryptomining becomes a lot more difficult.

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Cryptominers su Google Play: come Sophos protegge i clienti

March 15, 2018 admin Android, cryptomining, Google Play, Per gli utenti, Smartphone

Credit to Author: Tiziana Carboni| Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2018 06:23:39 +0000

I SophosLabs hanno scoperto una nuova, preoccupante dimensione della tendenza degli aggressori che si rivolgono agli utenti di dispositivi mobili Android per il mining di criptovalute.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/n5ZxHNf_L3U” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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

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A week in security (February 12 – February 18)

February 19, 2018 admin Android, cryptomining, healthcare, infosec, Security, Security world, valentine's day, Week in security, weekly roundup

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2018 16:55:49 +0000

A roundup of notable news stories from February 12–18, including Android cryptomining, phishing on a massive scale, Apple scams, and bug bounties.

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A week in security (February 5 – February 11)

February 12, 2018 admin a week in security, android cryptomining, cryptomining, deepfakes, mac cryptomining, safer internet day, Security world, Week in security

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2018 17:00:10 +0000

We bring you an overview of what happened in cybersecurity during the last week, including new developments in drive-by cryptomining, including Mac and Android miners, and yet another abusing the fact that Deepfakes content was banned from most major networks.

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

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New Deepfakes forum goes mining with Coinhive

February 8, 2018 admin bitcoin, bitcoins, cryptocurrency, cryptomining, cybercrime, deepfakes, Mining, privacy, scripts

Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2018 19:23:40 +0000

With the collapse of the main Deepfakes hubs on Reddit, users have moved away to other forums. Problem is, at least one of them is mining for cryptocurrency. Can your PC handle it?

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Tags: bitcoin bitcoins cryptocurrency cryptomining deepfakes mining scripts

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