A researcher at Akamai has posted a blog about a worrying new trend—proxyjacking—where criminals sell your bandwidth to a third-party proxy…
Tag: Cryptojacking
Cryptojackers growing in numbers and sophistication
With rising energy costs and increased volatility in the value of cryptocurrencies, we were bound to see a rise in malicious cryptomining, aka…
A week in security (February 15 – February 21)
Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, the spotlight fell on the State of Malware 2021 report, wherein we have seen cyberthreats evolve….
Cryptojacking in the post-Coinhive era
September 2017 is widely recognized as the month in which the phenomenon that became cryptojacking began. The idea that website owners…
Persistent drive-by cryptomining coming to a browser near you
Since our last blog on drive-by cryptomining, we are witnessing more and more cases of abuse involving the infamous Coinhive service…
A look into the global drive-by cryptocurrency mining phenomenon
An important milestone in the history of cryptomining happened around mid-September when a company called Coinhive launched a service that could…