Malware that mines cryptocurrency has made a comeback over the summer, with an increased number of campaigns being discovered and documented by cyber-security firms. The primary reason for this sudden ...

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 ...

Illicit Monero-mining malware accounts for more than 4 percent of the XMR in circulation, and has created $57 million in profits for the bad guys. An academic analysis of cryptomining malware has ...

Viperatech, a major player in the cryptocurrency mining industry, today announced the opening of preorders for the much-awaited Bitmain Antminer X5 Monero (XMR) Miner. The new hardware aims to usher ...

The Blue Mockingbird malware gang has infected more than 1,000 business systems with Monero mining malware since December 2019. The global scale of the hacker group’s operations was revealed by cloud ...

Cryptocurrency mining tool Coinhive has decided to shut up shop, although not because of its rampant abuse by hackers over the past two years. The team behind the Monero miner revealed all in a brief ...

Monero is a well-designed privacy coin with features that give it some important advantages over Bitcoin. These advantages include privacy, better fungibility, ASIC resistance, dynamic block size, a ...

The Monero (XMR) network has been successfully upgraded to RandomX, a new mining algorithm that aims to be ASIC-resistant. On Nov. 30, the Monero community workgroup ...

Is it possible to mine Monero without investing in mining equipment worth thousands of dollars? And, if so, is the effort worthwhile? This article will attempt to answer those questions. But before ...