Criminals use all sorts of tricks and tactics to achieve their sinister goals. Unfortunately, the world of cryptocurrencies is not exempt. New criminal tactics have emerged in the form of an online threat known as cryptojacking. What exactly is cryptojacking and how does it work? You can find out in this article. What Is Cryptojacking? […]
Continue ReadingFor a while, ransomware attacks were a hacker’s and scammer’s favorite tool for extracting money from their victims. Now, Microsoft reports that ransomware has now fallen out of favor in place of another kind of attack: cryptojacking. Why Cryptojacking Took the Number One Spot On the Microsoft Security blog, the company details how the scope of […]
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A new security threat is in town: cryptojacking. The cryptocurrency explosion is moving nefarious individuals to power mining systems anyway possible. And the latest method for securing additional, free power is by hijacking your system resources. We wrote recently concerning the significant rise in browser-based cryptocurrency mining scripts. Well, those scripts are now in their […]
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