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Check Points latest Global Threat Index reveals a near four-fold increase in cryptomining malware targeting iPhone users.

iPhones see 400% increase in cryptomining malware

Crypto-mining continues to be the dominant threat facing organisations across the world.

24 Oct 2018 5:25 AM

Phones are become an extra limb to the human body today, and the over use of smartphones is presently having a serious effect on social health and psychological activity of an individual.

Opera mobile browser gets cryptocurrency mining protection

According to reports, there are currently more than 3 million websites exposed to cryptojacking.

23 Jan 2018 6:48 AM

Machine infection occurs remotely through exploits or remote administration tools. (Photo: Pixabay)

PowerGhost: New cryptominer found preying on corporates

PowerGhost is distributed within corporate networks, infecting both workstations and servers.

31 July 2018 8:21 AM

Fears of battery drain make Apple ban cryptocurrency mining.

Cryptomining replaces ransomware as most popular cybercrime malware

Analysis of vulnerability and threat trends shows cryptomining malware dominates threat landscape in the first half of...

23 July 2018 3:35 PM

Russia, which has denied hacking U.S. systems, has been accused of interference in the U.S. presidential election by hacking American political sites and email accounts. (Photo: Representational Image)

Cryptomining: 37% of organisations impacted in 2018

The first installment of the 2019 report reveals the key malware trends and techniques observed during the past year.

22 Jan 2019 10:30 AM

The kind and the scale of these cyber weapons was such that even the CIA lost control of majority of its hacking arsenal which includes state of the art malware, viruses, Trojans and weaponised zero day exploits which can be worth millions of dollars each in dark web.

What should you do: Cryptojacking worm Beapy hits enterprises

Beapy (W32.Beapy) is a file-based coinminer that uses email as an initial infection vector.

26 April 2019 5:31 AM

Kaspersky Labs findings indicate that the attackers behind the malware seek out vulnerable routers for compromise and distribute the malware through a simple yet very effective trick of hijacking the DNS settings of those infected routers.

Cryptominers are still the most prevalent malware aimed at...

Check Point's researchers confirm crypto-mining malware continues to lead top malware list despite Coinhive closure in...

10 April 2019 11:21 AM

Firefox Chief Technology Officer Eric Rescorla explained that one of the certificates used to sign add-ons expired just after 1AM UTC on May 4. (Photo: ANI)

Latest Firefox update promises protection against cryptomining

Firefox 67 uses time management strategy to prioritise tasks and perform them in optimal time.

22 May 2019 5:42 AM

Bitcoin has more than tripled in price since the start of October, putting it on track for its best quarter since the end of 2013, when it surged above $1,000 for the first time.

Robbers steal USD 2 million bitcoin mining computer in Iceland

The powerful computers, which have not yet been found, are worth almost USD 2 million.

3 March 2018 5:18 AM