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Security researchers have discovered at least three massive malware campaigns exploiting hundreds of thousands of unpatched MikroTik route...

Ransomware has become a multimillion-dollar black market business for cybercriminals, and SamSam being a great example. New research revea...

Again some bad news for cryptocurrency users. KICKICO, a blockchain-based initial coin offering (ICO) support platform, has fallen vict...

Following Apple's lead in banning cryptocurrency mining apps , Google has also updated its Play Store policy this week to ban apps tha...

Security researchers have discovered an interesting piece of malware that infects systems with either a cryptocurrency miner or ransomware...

Security researchers have been warning about a new malicious campaign that leverages an alternative scheme to mine cryptocurrencies witho...

BitTorrent, the company which owns the popular file-sharing client uTorrent, has quietly been sold for $140 million in cash to Justin Su...

Due to the surge in cryptocurrency prices, not only hackers but also legitimate websites and mobile apps are increasingly using cryptocu...

Security researchers have been warning about cybercriminals who have made over 20 million dollars in just past few months by hijacking in...

Security researchers have discovered a series of new vulnerabilities in EOS blockchain platform, one of which could allow remote hackers ...

In an effort to prevent cryptojacking by extensions that maliciously mine digital currencies without users' awareness, Google has imp...

Nothing comes for free, especially online. Would you be okay with allowing a few paid services to mine cryptocurrencies using your syst...

A zero-day vulnerability has been discovered in the desktop version for end-to-end encrypted Telegram messaging app that was being exploi...

There was a time when hackers simply defaced websites to get attention, then they started hijacking them to spread banking trojan and ran...

Two days ago when infosec bods claimed to have uncovered what's believed to be the first case of a SCADA network (a water utility) i...

Coincheck, a Tokyo-based cryptocurrency exchange, has suffered what appears to be the biggest hack in the history of cryptocurrencies, lo...

Pavel Lerner , a prominent Russian blockchain expert and known managing director of one of the major crypto-exchanges EXMO, has allegedly...

If you receive a video file ( packed in zip archive ) sent by someone ( or your friends ) on your Facebook messenger — just don't cli...

The North Korean hacking group has turned greedy. Security researchers have uncovered a new widespread malware campaign targeting cryp...

Due to the recent surge in cryptocurrency prices, not only hackers but also legitimate website administrators are increasingly using Ja...