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 ...

Over the past decade, the machines that maintain the Bitcoin network have undergone rapid technological development. Mining equipment is a fundamental feature of the success of the bitcoin network ...

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; ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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.

File-sharing websites are not exactly known for their sterling reputation, though a few such as famed torrent site the Pirate Bay have been around for long enough while generally avoiding shady ...