CPU and GPU Miners are Trojans that use your computer's resources without your knowledge to mine cryptocurrencies such as Monero, Bitcoin, DarkCoin, and others. While a person using a miner to mine a ...

The Websock.exe Miner is a Trojan that utilizes a victim's CPU processing power to mine digital CryptoCurrency. When installed, this Trojan will create a scheduled task that ultimately executes a ...

It looks like the GPU shortage has seen crypto miners move to other cryptocurrencies -- including Raptoreum (RTM), which can be mined on the CPU and absolutely loves the large L3 cache on an AMD Ryzen ...

In March, the crypto world saw the first instance of what many saw as a hostile takeover attempt of another blockchain. Justin Sun, the founder of Tron, had acquired Steemit, Inc. and the Steem ...

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 ...

Chia Network, which emerged onto the cryptocurrency scene with the promise of cleaning up the environmental mess left by Bitcoin (BTC) miners, may not be as green as it seems. Unlike Bitcoin, Ethereum ...

Over the weekend, torrent portal The Pirate Bay was caught running a cryptocurrency miner on its website, queitly hijacking visitors’ computing resources to stack Monero coins, TorrentFreak reported.

If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. The crypto mining Javascript is called Coinhive, and according to the site, it was made as an ...

Crypto miners might have a new hardware target soon if they choose to abandon mining with graphics cards. As per a report by Digital Trends, it looks like AMD Ryzen CPUs are starting to get looked at ...

Here we will see the newest selection of 10 most profitable coins and cryptocurrencies to mine in 2018 as things are now. Now, it really seems that Bitcoin mining has become a serious business. Since ...

Bitcoin mining is perhaps the most significant feature of the cryptocurrency architecture, serving both as the mechanism employed to secure the Bitcoin network and as the means by which new coins are ...

Salon.com has a new, cryptocurrency-driven strategy for making money when readers block ads. If you want to read Salon without seeing ads, you can do so—as long as you let the website use your spare ...