Trend Micro researchers recently found that hackers had gained entry to, and then modified code, in AOL’s advertising platform to mine Monero cryptocurrency. 500 other websites are also thought to be infected with the same CoinHive cryptocurrency … [Read more...] about Hackers Modify Code in AOL Advertising Platform
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College Students Get Into The Cryptocurrency Business In Their Dorms
College dorms are increasingly being used for cryptomining. The process of mining for cryptocurrency involves the use of idle computing power to verify transactions on the blockchain. Miners who are able to solve the complicated math problems called … [Read more...] about College Students Get Into The Cryptocurrency Business In Their Dorms
PHP Weathermap Bug Allows Cryptocurrency Mining
Hackers are exploiting CVE-2013-2618, a five-year-old security vulnerability in Cacti’s Network Weathermap plug-in to infect x86-64 Linux web servers with cryptocurrency-mining malware. The Weathermap plug-in is an open source tool that network … [Read more...] about PHP Weathermap Bug Allows Cryptocurrency Mining
PostgreSQL Malware Targeting The Open Source Database
PostgreSQL malware, which cryptomines the digital currency Monero, is being placed on PostgreSQL DBMS servers using an image of Hollywood actress Scarlett Johansson as its attack vector. According to security firm Imperva, whose StickyDB database … [Read more...] about PostgreSQL Malware Targeting The Open Source Database