NSA leak fuels rise in hacking for crypto mining: report
Illicit cryptocurrency mining has been surging over the past year, in part due to a leaked software tool from the US National Security Agency, researchers ...
Hackers have been running cryptocurrency mining malware on government websites in India
Government websites in India – ranging from state government-level sites to those of municipal corporations – have fallen victim to crypto-jacking, a form of hacking ...
Construction to begin on 36 megawatt Moroccan wind farm for Bitcoin mining
Enlarge / An artist"s rendering of a combination Bitcoin mine and turbine farm. (credit: Soluna)
Morocco has a lot of prime real estate for ...
This cryptocurrency botnet was designed to seek and destroy mining malware
Cryptocurrency botnets are normally the weapons of evil, used to covertly and illicitly steal other people’s computing power to earn coins. But now there’s a ...
Czech Prime Minister Accuses Pirate Party of Mining Bitcoin
Bitcoin mining became the subject of an unexpected political clash in the Czech Republic. The Prime Minister accused his opposition, the Czech Pirate Party, of ...
Government Websites in India Hacked for Crypto Mining
Hackers have targeted government websites in India with malware in order to conduct illicit cryptocurrency mining.
The government of India has a contentious relationship with cryptocurrency. ...
Cryptocurrency Mining Explained: A 2-Minute Rundown
Since cryptocurrency isn’t a physical commodity like gold or oil, it might be hard to understand how people mine it. It’s a currency, so the ...
Whitelabel ITSolutions Expands on Building Power Capabilities; Assisting Crypto Mining Solutions
HACKENSACK, N.J., Sept. 17, 2018 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- The demand for data center resources increases at a massive rate, from small business to huge enterprises the ...
Hackers secretly ran cryptocurrency mining malware on Indian government sites
The crypto-jacking epidemic has spread to India. It has come to light that tons of Indian government sites have been infected with cryptocurrency mining malware, ...
Bitcoin Mining Uses a Lot of Energy, But Gold Mining Uses 20x More
The production of Bitcoin through mining is an energy-intensive process – a fact which many critics are quick to point out. Compared to mining gold, ...
