Security researchers are concerned about the rise of cryptocurrency miners that are being embedded into websites and apps to use a device's resources without gaining permission. Security firm Trend ...

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The Internet is awash with covert crypto currency miners that bog down computers and even smartphones with computationally intensive math problems called by hacked or ethically questionable sites. The ...

CPU Miner is a potentially unwanted program that installs programs that use your computer's resources to mine digital currency without your permission. When installed, this PUP installs two different ...

A blockchain is a decentralized database of transactions that everyone on the network can see. The network consists of many computers that verify transactions and add them to the blockchain ledger; ...

Is it malware if it tells you exactly what it's going to do and then does that very thing? That's essentially the question facing Apple after reports broke that a program available in the Mac App ...

When you think of a cryptocurrency mining rig, it’s easy to associate it with large rigs featuring multiple GPUs in some type of air-cooled room. While that may be true, not every cryptocurrency needs ...

Cryptocurrency-mining software has been discovered on the Apple Mac Store, hiding in a Calendar application with hundreds of thousands of downloads. Users of the macOS software, developed by a company ...

A calendar app in the Mac App Store has been mining cryptocurrency in the background in exchange for giving users additional features — and an option to opt out of mining has been broken. So far, ...

New Jersey-based cryptocurrency mining startup Honeyminer has made its mining app available on the Apple Macintosh operating system, the firm announced in a blog post on May 9. The Honeyminer app runs ...

Kaspersky Lab discovered multiple instances of malicious Android mining apps appearing on the Google Play Store. One of these apps was downloaded over 100,000 times before it was discovered and ...