A new Mac cryptocurrency miner Malwarebytes detects as Bird Miner has been found in a cracked installer for the high-end music…
Tag: cryptominer
A week in security (April 22 – 28)
Last week on Labs, we looked at security threats to headphones, privacy options in the world of law, and wandered through…
‘Hidden Bee’ miner delivered via improved drive-by download toolkit
This blog post was authored by @hasherezade and Jérôme Segura. We recently detected a drive-by download attack trying to exploit CVE-2018-4878, a vulnerability in…
New Mac cryptominer uses XMRig
A new Mac cryptominer was discovered this week, after affected users saw their fans whirring out of control and a process…
New Mac cryptominer distributed via a MacUpdate hack
Early this morning, security researcher Arnaud Abbati of SentinelOne tweeted about new Mac malware being distributed via MacUpdate. This malware, which…
Drive-by mining and ads: The Wild Wild West
There seems to be a trend lately for publishers to monetize their traffic by having their visitors mine for cryptocurrencies while…