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Malicious Cryptocurrency Mining Digs Into Mobile

Malicious cryptocurrency mining is a fast-growing threat in 2018, surpassing ransomware as the favorite choice of cybercriminals. The rising value and steady availability of digital currencies, such as Bitcoin and Monero, offer attackers low risk with high returns and is driving this surge. Cybercriminals deploying cryptocurren...

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Sep 12, 2018

By Terry Young

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The Rise of the Cryptocurrency Miners

Over the past few months, I’ve found myself continually being in the position of researching a new threat or campaign that results in the delivery of a cryptocurrency miner. As time progressed, I began asking myself if this was a coincidence, or part of a much larger tr...

Jun 11, 2018

By Josh Grunzweig

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Smoking Out the Rarog Cryptocurrency Mining Trojan

For the past few months, Unit 42 researchers have investigated a relatively unknown coin mining Trojan that goes by the name ‘Rarog’.

Apr 04, 2018

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Threat Brief: What’s Driving the Shift to Cryptocurrency Mining Malware?

Over the past six months, we’ve seen a major increase in the number of attack campaigns with the ultimate goal of mining cryptocurrency. It’s a subject Unit 42 has been tracking in...

Mar 06, 2018

By Ryan Olson

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Monero Miners Continue to Plague Users via Russian BitTorrent Site

As 2018 begins, we’ve witnessed an increased trend in cryptocurrency miners. The latest identified threat comes in the form of a Russian BitTorrent site that is covertly distributi...

Mar 01, 2018

By Josh Grunzweig

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Threat Brief: A Declining Rig Exploit Kit Hops on the Coinmining Bandwagon

In January 2017, Rig Exploit Kit (EK) was still in the middle of a strong run. But when April 2017 came, Rig started a very marked decline.

Feb 26, 2018

By Christopher Budd

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Threat Brief: Malware Authors Mine Monero Across the Globe in a Big Way

In October 2017, Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 published research showing how attackers were adapting attack techniques to generate cryptocurrency for themselves. In that research, we...

Jan 24, 2018

By Christopher Budd

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Large Scale Monero Cryptocurrency Mining Operation using XMRig

Based on publicly available telemetry data via bitly, we are able to estimate that the number of victims affected by this operation is roughly around 15 million people worldwide. T...

Jan 24, 2018

By Josh Grunzweig

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