Mining Bitcoin on mobile devices has significant technical and financial limitations. Cloud mining is a more practical option for smartphone users who want to engage with Bitcoin mining. Joining ...

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Most Android malware is at best annoying, but rarely does it cause physical damage to a phone. Not so with Loapi, a newly-discovered trojan with a cryptocurrency miner that worked a phone so hard its ...

Security firm Lookout found the apps, saying that they "advertise themselves as providing cloud cryptocurrency mining services for a fee". The team did a detailed analysis of the apps and found that ...

A new strain of Android malware will continuously use an infected device's CPU to mine the Monero cryptocurrency until the device is exhausted or even breaks down. Security company Trend Micro has ...

The botnet uses port scanning code from Mirai, a first for Android-related attacks, according to researchers. A new botnet that distributes malware for mining Monero cryptocurrency has emerged, ...

You would have had to live under a rock for the past several months in order to skip the non-stop talks about cryptocurrency this year. Massive spikes in Bitcoin value triggered a lot of people to ...

Although Bitcoins are valuable as digital currencies go, mining them is a relatively inefficient way of making money, due to the incredible amount of processing power required to produce them. This ...

New Monero-mining malware ADB.Miner has infected 7,000 Android devices, including smartphones and TVs, cybersecurity researchers report. As 360Netlab reports, the ADB.Miner worm scans can affect any ...

Shouldn't this be something that the phone actively prevents? I mean let's pretend that cryptocurrencies don't exist. This exploit has still shown one could create malware that destroys phone hardware ...

A newly discovered piece of Android malware carries out a litany of malicious activities, including showing an almost unending series of ads, participating in distributed denial-of-service attacks, ...