Cyber crooks are now building networks for other criminals to use for their illicit activities, but law enforcement officials finally got the upper hand on a global construct that had infected roughly 850,000 computers in over 100 countries with malware that acted as a “utility” for general use. French Police, with help from the U.S.…
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Fortnite is a popular online game that was released in 2017 and developed by Epic Games. It has garnered significant interest from gamers because of its high quality interface and overall appeal. Now, the merchandise store for the game has made Monero its exclusive cryptocurrency payment. The announcement was made on January 1, 2019. The…
Read moreIndependent financial services organisation deVere Group announced that it has added two more cryptocurrencies to its deVere Crypto platform app. With the additions of Stellar Lumens (XLM) and Monero (XMR), users of deVere Crypto can now buy, sell, store and exchange seven major cryptocurrencies. Existing digital coins on the app were Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH)…
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Mining cryptocurrencies is like "drinking water" for hackers. From Starbucks coffeeshops to Tesla's high-tech engines, crypto miners have found a way to abuse the system to mine cryptocurrencies of different types. Now, the latest victims seem to be none others but Apple users. The Verge just reported that one calendar app that could be found…
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As the world has gone mad on cryptocurrencies and mining them, the latest casualty became millions of Android users, whose phones were hijacked and redirected to a website that mines Monero. The cybersecurity company, Malwarebytes, discovered that the so-called 'drive-by cryptomining' malware had managed to infect Android phones and redirect them to a website running…
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