- Security
- By George Dascalu
- August 20th, 2021
Fake Cryptomining Apps Infect Users' Phones via Google Play
Fake apps pose as crypto miners abundant on Google Play
- Security
- By Sergiu Gatlan
- November 20th, 2018
200K Outlaw Botnet Uses SSH Brute Forcing to Propagate, Monero Mining for Profit
Botnet kills and hijacks active miners with its own binaries
- Security
- By Sergiu Gatlan
- October 15th, 2018
400 Percent Increase in Cryptocurrency Mining Attacks Against iOS Devices
Four-fold increase against devices using the Safari browser
- Security
- By Sergiu Gatlan
- October 1st, 2018
Roaming Mantis Group Adds Phishing and Web Crypto Mining for iOS Devices
The threat group has increased the number of targets
- Mobile World
- By Bogdan Popa
- July 27th, 2018
Google Bans Android Crypto Miners on the Google Play Store
Developer policies updated with more app restrictions
- Security
- By Bogdan Popa
- June 18th, 2018
Cryptominer Discovered in Andy Android Emulator for Windows
Miner leading to high resource usage on Windows PCs
- Apple
- By Bogdan Popa
- June 11th, 2018
Apple Updates App Store Guidelines to Regulate Crypto Apps
Apps mining with iPhone resources strictly prohibited
- Security
- By Bogdan Popa
- April 6th, 2018
Kaspersky Finds Crypto Miners in Android Apps Published on Google Play Store
One of the apps was downloaded over 100,000 times
- Windows Software
- By Bogdan Popa
- April 3rd, 2018
Google Bans Chrome Extensions Mining Cryptocurrency
No new extensions accepted, existing ones to be removed
- Windows
- By Bogdan Popa
- March 14th, 2018
Microsoft: Windows Defender Protects Windows 10 Against Coin Miners
Stats show that crypto mining is become a major concern
- Apple
- By Bogdan Popa
- March 13th, 2018
macOS Calendar App Whitelisted by Apple Quietly Mined Cryptocurrency
Mining offered in exchange for premium features, but the process doesn’t stop even when users opt out