Tag: Coinhive
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Annual Protest to ‘Fight Krebs’ Raises €150K+
In 2018, KrebsOnSecurity unmasked the creators of Coinhive — a now-defunct cryptocurrency mining service that was being massively abused …
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Whatever happened to cryptojacking?
A couple of years ago it felt like you couldn’t turn your head in any direction without seeing another headline about cryptomining and …
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Cryptojacking is almost conquered – crushed along with coinhive.com
Cryptojacking may not be entirely dead following the shutdown of a notorious cryptomining service, but it isn’t very healthy, according …
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Remember cryptojacking from way, way back (2019)? Site infections are down 99% – thanks to death of Coinhive
Cryptojacking, the theft of computing power to mine digital currency, has been around at least since 2013 – and has shrunk in use …
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The Rise of Silence and the Fall of Coinhive
Cryptomining will exist as long as it remains profitable. One of the most effective ways to disrupt that activity is to make it too …
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Cryptojacking in the post-Coinhive era
September 2017 is widely recognized as the month in which the phenomenon that became cryptojacking began. The idea that website owners …
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Coinhive stops digging, but cryptomining still dominates
While cryptomining services such as Coinhive have closed down, cryptominers are still the most prevalent malware aimed at organizations …
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Hard Times for Cryptojacking
cybercrime climate is flexible enough to quickly adapt to new circumstances and trends. The fact that cryptocurrency markets skyrocketed in …
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Annual Protest Raises $250K to Cure Krebs
For the second year in a row, denizens of a large German-language online forum have donated more than USD $250,000 to cancer research …
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Researchers unveil February 2019’s most wanted malware
Coinhive has once again led Check Point’s Global Threat Index for the 15th consecutive month, despite the announcement that its services …
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Coinhive dominates malware charts before being shut down
Coinhive continued to hold the top spot in Check Point Research’s February Global Threat Index, impacting 10 percent of organizations …
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The End of CoinHive and the Rise of Cryptojacking
CoinHive is a service that was created in September 2017. It allows users to mine Monero cryptocurrency using …
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