CPU Miner is a potentially unwanted program that installs programs that use your computer's resources to mine digital currency without your permission. When installed, this PUP installs two different ...

The Websock.exe Miner is a Trojan that utilizes a victim's CPU processing power to mine digital CryptoCurrency. When installed, this Trojan will create a scheduled task that ultimately executes a ...

Learn what cryptocurrency mining is and how you can get started in mining cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Ether.

Over the weekend, torrent portal The Pirate Bay was caught running a cryptocurrency miner on its website, queitly hijacking visitors’ computing resources to stack Monero coins, TorrentFreak reported.

YouTube was recently caught displaying ads that covertly leach off visitors’ CPUs and electricity to generate digital currency on behalf of anonymous attackers, it was widely reported. Word of the ...

The Pirate Bay surprised many of its users when it added a JavaScript-based cryptocurrency miner to its website. On 16 September, users began posting on Reddit about how they’d seen a significant jump ...