Hackers are now injecting cryptocurrency mining scripts into web advertising platforms to make a quick buck, security researchers have found. Trend Micro wrote in a blog post Wednesday that its ...

In the last months, we stumbled upon some JavaScript files apparently used to mine cryptocurrencies directly within the browser. For a long time now, cybercriminals have taken advantage of ...

Opportunistic cybercriminals are capitalizing on the death of basketball legend Kobe Bryant earlier this week by setting booby-traps for those searching for mementos of the star. According to a tweet ...

Yesterday when I visited our TWC Forum, which runs on vBulletin software, my security software threw up this warning: https:// coinhive dot com /lib/coinhive.js Object file detected, download blocked ...

A virtual currency mining script is embedded immediately by exploiting the JavaScript custom function added to Excel Microsoft announced May 7, 2018 that adding JavaScript custom functions to Excel ...

Web-based cryptocurrency mining, also known as cryptojacking or drive-by mining, never stood a chance to become an alternative revenue stream or replace classic ads. According to new academic research ...

If you experienced a sudden drop of performance when visiting Politifact on Friday, it was most likely because the popular fact-checking website was fast busy taxing your computer’s resources to make ...

A subscription streaming site owned by mixed martial-arts powerhouse Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) is at the center of the latest controversy around clandestine, browser-based cryptocurrency ...

Researchers at Mitiga revealed in a blog post Friday an AWS AMI for a Windows 2008 virtual server hosted by an unverified vendor is infected with a Monero mining script. The malware would have ...

About the script "Use the CPU power of site viewer for mining virtual currency" which is found around September 2017, it is currently executed only by accessing but this type of script in the Chromium ...