Hackers are now injecting cryptocurrency mining scripts into web advertising platforms to make a quick buck, security researchers have found. Trend Micro wrote in a blog post Wednesday that its ...

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 ...

Microsoft’s Security Intelligence team has found a malicious coin mining script in html code buried in Kobe Bryant desktop wallpaper. Opportunistic cybercriminals are capitalizing on the death of ...

Web-based cryptocurrency mining, also known as cryptojacking or drive-by mining, never stood a chance to become an alternative revenue stream or replace classic ads. According to new academic research ...

If you experienced a sudden drop of performance when visiting Politifact on Friday, it was most likely because the popular fact-checking website was fast busy taxing your computer’s resources to make ...

A virtual currency mining script is embedded immediately by exploiting the JavaScript custom function added to Excel Microsoft announced May 7, 2018 that adding JavaScript custom functions to Excel ...

Yesterday when I visited our TWC Forum, which runs on vBulletin software, my security software threw up this warning: https:// coinhive dot com /lib/coinhive.js Object file detected, download blocked ...