Last year, The Pirate Bay found itself in hot water (geddit?) after torrent downloaders discovered the site was quietly mining for cryptocurrency in the background. Quietly? Well, perhaps not if your ...

A new strain of Android malware will continuously use an infected device's CPU to mine the Monero cryptocurrency until the device is exhausted or even breaks down. Security company Trend Micro has ...

A dangerous new wave of cryptocurrency mining malware has struck the internet, and it has already infected thousands of high-value enterprises across Asia. Known as “Beapy,” the malware uses leaked ...

A modular malware with worm capabilities exploits known vulnerabilities in servers running ElasticSearch, Hadoop, Redis, Spring, Weblogic, ThinkPHP, and SqlServer to spread from one server to another ...

Publicly available cloud images are spreading Monero-mining malware to unsuspecting cloud developers. At least 30 malicious images in Docker Hub, with a collective 20 million downloads, have been used ...

The malware takes aim at PostgreSQL database servers with never-before-seen techniques. An innovative Linux-based cryptocurrency mining botnet has been uncovered, which exploits a disputed PostgreSQL ...

A report stemming from the RWTH Aachen University in Germany reveals that despite a dramatic fall of interest in cryptocurrency mining, the Coinhive JavaScript-based miner is still highly active, ...