CPU and GPU Miners are Trojans that use your computer's resources without your knowledge to mine cryptocurrencies such as Monero, Bitcoin, DarkCoin, and others. While a person using a miner to mine a ...

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 ...

It looks like the GPU shortage has seen crypto miners move to other cryptocurrencies -- including Raptoreum (RTM), which can be mined on the CPU and absolutely loves the large L3 cache on an AMD Ryzen ...

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.

Over the past decade, the machines that maintain the Bitcoin network have undergone rapid technological development. Mining equipment is a fundamental feature of the success of the bitcoin network ...

A blockchain is a decentralized database of transactions that everyone on the network can see. The network consists of many computers that verify transactions and add them to the blockchain ledger; ...

The rise from 1 to 148 trillion does not block participation, it measures how much total computational power is competing at ...

File-sharing websites are not exactly known for their sterling reputation, though a few such as famed torrent site the Pirate Bay have been around for long enough while generally avoiding shady ...

Salon.com has a new, cryptocurrency-driven strategy for making money when readers block ads. If you want to read Salon without seeing ads, you can do so—as long as you let the website use your spare ...

The rise of drive-by cryptocurrency mining on a growing number of websites has led to a renewed demand for ad-blocking software. Web users are seeking new ways to ward off hidden code that saddles ...