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Crowd Strike Holdings Inc. – a security research firm – has released a new report detailing what has been labeled the first crypto jacking campaign targeting the Kubernetes infrastructure. Crypto Jacking… Yup! It’s Still Around! Crypto jacking is (at this stage) an old method of illegally mining cryptocurrency. What one does is they place malware onto a specific site or application that a victim comes across. In visiting the website or in opening the app, the malware is...

Several supercomputers in European nations have been shut down following reports that they’ve been infected with cryptocurrency mining malware. Thus far, devices in countries such as the United Kingdom, Switzerland and Germany have all been affected and taken offline at the time of writing.Mining Malware Shuts Down SupercomputersThere is now an ongoing investigation into where the malware came from and which parties are potentially responsible for uploading it onto the computers. The malware...

Crypto theft is quite common, and it’s no laughing matter. Recently, as many as 725 separate forms of malware were discovered on the Ruby Gems platform, which is typically used for downloading and offering Ruby programming language. The malware was widely designed to get in the way of bitcoin and crypto payments and potentially shift them over to wallets and addresses controlled by hackers.Malware Is Big… and DangerousIn all, there were more than 100,000 malware downloads, and all the...

A new game known as Cooking Mama: Cookstar is believed to have been hiding a cryptocurrency miner within its code. The game has already been delisted from several U.S. sites and marketplaces such as e-Shop, while other regions – such as Australia – are refusing to even market the game as a result.Cooking Mama May Be Secretly Mining CryptoThe Cooking Mama game has been accused by several users on Twitter of utilizing Switch consoles to mine crypto and the personal information of its players,...

At the time of writing, the privacy-focused cryptocurrency Monero is allegedly outperforming bitcoin, the world’s number one cryptocurrency by market cap.Monero Is Up, Up and Away!Monero is only the world’s 12th largest digital asset, though it is easily today’s biggest gainer, having surged by more than seven percent in just the last 24 hours alone. It is currently trading for just shy of $54, according to Messari.io.Monero is a very controversial coin in that it offers people far more...

People seem to love celebrities. Even cryptocurrency hackers have a thing for famous individuals as recently witnessed in a case of one hacker utilizing an image of famed pop singer Taylor Swift to hide malicious code.Taylor Swift Is Hiding a BotnetTaylor Swift is widely renowned for her capabilities as a musician, actress and marketer. Now, it appears she was unknowingly part of a cryptocurrency botnet that sought to hide crypto malware on infected computers. The botnet is known as MyKingz,...

Researchers at the hacking group Bad Packets are doing a widespread scan of the internet to see which pages, sites and channels are potentially using the sandbox software Docker as a means of mining cryptocurrency.Bad Packets: Good SolutionsMalicious actors are running rampant in the cryptocurrency world. We’ve seen this recently through the hack of popular South Korean crypto exchange Up Bit, which was robbed of nearly $50 million in ether funds just last Wednesday. It wasn’t a pretty sight,...

Bitcoin has grown exponentially over the past year or so, and this has made many hackers and malicious actors want to target cryptocurrency owners. Now, a new strain of bitcoin-based malware entitled “Save Yourself” is making the rounds, and while analysts have been warning enthusiasts about it for the past week, it seems to be much worse than originally thought.How to “Save Yourself” from MalwareSave Yourself has been here for some time. Originally, it was a form of malware designed to...

Is it possible that North Korea is back in the cryptocurrency hacking space? According to one source, that’s exactly the case. Researchers say they’ve uncovered a new attack from Lazarus, based in the nuclear-powered country.Lazarus Is Back in Our MidstNorth Korea has been involved in several crypto hacking cases over the past few years and is allegedly using stolen digital funds to power its nuclear program. The nation has allegedly performed attacks on its neighbor to the south, the United...