Monero

Employees at the French C3N digital crime center have destroyed a botnet miner that has attacked over 850,000 computers in more than 100 countries. It is reported by the BBC. It is known that the botnet was controlled from the territory of France. He used infected computers to mine Monero, launch ransomware, and steal data, including patient data from Israeli hospitals. It is assumed that […]

Cyber security company Varonis has discovered a new miner virus that stealthily extends Monero cryptocurrency (XMR) on users' devices. The company’s report said that a feature of the miner called Norman is that it is difficult to detect in the system. So, when you open the task manager on a Windows device, the program ends the mining process. Accordingly, after closing the task manager, the miner restarts. […]