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Hackers Modify Code in AOL Advertising Platform

April 20, 2018 By News Team Leave a Comment

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

Filed Under: Cryptomining, Hacking Tagged With: AOL advertising platform, Coinhive, cryptocurrency mining, cryptojacking, cryptomining, Monero, MSN Japanese web portal, Trend Micro, YouTube

College Students Get Into The Cryptocurrency Business In Their Dorms

March 30, 2018 By News Team Leave a Comment

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

Filed Under: Cryptocurrencies, Cryptomining Tagged With: Chris Morales, college dorms, college students, computing power, cryptocurrencies, cryptomining, guidance, hackers, mining, proof of work, Stanford University, Vectra

PHP Weathermap Bug Allows Cryptocurrency Mining

March 23, 2018 By News Team Leave a Comment

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

Filed Under: Cryptomining Tagged With: China, cryptocurrency mining, cryptomining, CVE-2013-2618, Japan, Monero, open source, PHP Weathermap, PHP Weathermap Bug, Taiwan, Trend Micro, U.S., vulnerability

PostgreSQL Malware Targeting The Open Source Database

March 18, 2018 By News Team Leave a Comment

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

Filed Under: Malware Tagged With: attack vector, AWS, crpytocurrency malware attacks, cryptomining, Imperva, Monero, PostgreSQL, PostgreSQL malware, Scarlet Johansson, Smominru miner, StickyDB database management system

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