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Millions of Android users have unwittingly lent their device to a drive-by cryptocurrency mining campaign in what's believed to be the first large operation of this kind to specifically target mobile ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. There are over 170 apps available on Android that are crypto mining scams, with 26 of the cloud mining apps available publicly on the Google Play Store.

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The botnet uses port scanning code from Mirai, a first for Android-related attacks, according to researchers. A new botnet that distributes malware for mining Monero cryptocurrency has emerged, ...

A newly discovered malware for Android is programmed to eat up every available device resource to mine cryptocurrency, killing infected devices in the process. Building a slide deck, pitch, or ...

I wonder how much the Monero price spike from $50 to $320 in the last month is driven by the availability of browser mining exploits. Monero transaction costs are about 5 times less than BitCoin, I ...

The term mining in the context of digital currencies may conjure up various images in your head, with parallels likely drawn to gold or coal extraction from the earth. In reality, cryptocurrency ...