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Cryptojacking has been an issue in the world of cryptocurrencies ever since digital assets started gaining traction. The streak of malicious crypto mining is still on the rise even as Coinhive, the infamous cryptocurrency mining script, shut down its services earlier this year. Malwarebytes has reportedly blocked over 200,000 requests to link to Coinhive, just [...]
Steam, the famous gaming platform run by Valve Corporation has just pulled from its store a game dubbed “Abstractism” due to evidence that points to a possible cryptojacking. Abstractism is a simple platformer where players would have to make a pixel jump from one wall to another in a white and black environment. Retailing [...]
The Russian cybersecurity company Kaspersky Lab has found a new form of cryptojacking malware. PowerGhost is a new form of cryptojacking malware identified by the Russian company Kaspersky Lab. The new malware does not take in "hostage" user’s files as other malware do. Instead, it uses the individual processes of the computer to hijack it. [...]