A week in security (February 15 – February 21)
A roundup of cybersecurity news from February 15 – 21, including Egregor, romance scams, insider threats, and more.
Cryptojacking in the post-Coinhive era
Cryptojacking captured everyone’s attention in 2017 and 2018. With Coinhive no longer in business, has this threat been completely snuffed out?
Persistent drive-by cryptomining coming to a browser near you
If you think closing your browser window to leave a site that runs a cryptominer will stop the mining process, think again. Persistent drive-by cryptomining has arrived.
A look into the global drive-by cryptocurrency mining phenomenon
As drive-by downloads slow down, drive-by cryptocurrency mining emerges as the latest annoyance that hijacks our PCs’ CPU.
