The latest McAfee Labs report brings to light significant research on the ever-increasing threat of ransomware and the new family of emerging ransomware. In the first quarter of 2019 itself, the number of ransomware attacks rose by 118% while there were several new classes of ransomware detected as well. The investigation also found out that...Read More
French authorities recently disabled a botnet server which infected 850,000 other servers across 140 countries with a cryptojacking virus. The French cybersecurity revealed yesterday that shut down a botnet force comprising of 850,000 servers which operated mostly in Latin America. The main server of the operation was located in France and infecting computers with Monero...Read More
french cybercops have neutralized nearly a million computers infected by a crypto-mining mega botnet dubbed ‘Retadup’.| Source: Shutterstock The Retadup malware which had been deployed on hundreds of thousands of computers around the world to secretly mine the Monero cryptocurrency and commit other illegal acts may finally be over. According to the BBC, the backend...Read More
11 open-source code libraries written in Ruby contained cryptojacking code and were downloaded thousands of times. A Cryptojacking code was found in 11 open-source code libraries written in Ruby, which have been downloaded thousands of times. Industry news outlet Decrypt reported on Aug. 21 that cryptojacking code has been added to 11 open-source Ruby libraries...Read More
