Monero Archives - The Original Hacker For Hire

20 Nov

Official Monero Site Hacked to Distribute Cryptocurrency Stealing Malware

What an irony — someone hacked the official website of the Monero cryptocurrency project and quietly replaced legitimate Linux and Windows binaries available for download with malicious versions designed to steal funds from users’ wallets. The latest supply-chain cyberattack was...
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7 Jan

North #Korea allegedly #hacking #PCs to mine #Monero #cryptocurrency

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans North Korea has been accused of hacking server networks to install mining scripts for the Monero cryptocurrency. A new Monero mining hacker group has been seizing control of servers over the...
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30 Sep

Copy-Pasting Malware Dev Made $63,000 From Mining Monero on IIS Servers

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans A malware author (or authors) has made around $63,000 during the past five months by hacking unpatched IIS 6.0 servers and mining Monero. ESET researchers just recently uncovered the attacker’s operation....
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28 Sep

Hackers Exploiting Microsoft Servers to Mine Monero – Makes $63,000 In 3 Months

Mining cryptocurrencies can be a costly investment as it takes a monstrous amount of computing power, and thus hackers have started using malware that steals computing resources of computers it hijacks to make lots of dollars in digital currency. Security...
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9 Sep

CodeFork hacking team spreading ‘fileless’ malware to mine Monero cryptocurrency

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans A group of hackers dubbed ‘CodeFork’ by security researchers has recently launched a new campaign, reportedly spreading fileless malware and a strain of cryptocurrency miner that is able to exploit victims’...
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