Michael Hill More than 526,000 Windows hosts – mostly Windows servers – have been infected by a Monero miner known as Smominru, according to researchers at Proofpoint. In a blog on its website…
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Browser-based Crypto-Mining Rises from the Dead
Tara Seals Though it seemed all but dead, browser-based cryptocurrency mining is back—a revenant that has begun haunting websites and their visitors. It’s not just back in a small way:…
Starbucks cafe's wi-fi made computers mine crypto-currency
By Leo Kelion Starbucks has acknowledged that visitors to one of its branches were unwittingly recruited into a crypto-currency mining operation. The wi-fi service provided by one of the coffee…