Bleeping Computer

Remove the HPDriver.exe Monero Miner Trojan

The HPDriver.exe Miner is a Trojan that utilizes a victim's CPU processing power to mine the digital cryptocurrency called Monero. HPDriver.exe will be downloaded to the %Temp% folder and launched. It ...
Bleeping Computer

Remove the CPU.exe Monero Miner

The CPU.exe Miner is a Trojan that utilizes a victim's computer processor to mine the Monero, or XRM, digital currency. When installed, this Trojan will create numerous executables that when executed ...
Dark Reading

RIG Exploit Kit Injects Code That Creates Monero Miner

Researchers from FireEye have found the first use in the wild of a new kind of injection technique that was first described in October. The technique is used by the RIG exploit kit to inject code that ...
Dark Reading

How Attackers Can Exploit rTorrent with Monero Cryptocurrency Miner

rTorrent is a Unix-based torrent client that is implemented in C++. rTorrent optionally supports XML-RPC to allow control by other external programs. XML-RPC is a remote procedure call (RPC) protocol ...
Threat Post

Fake Ad Blocker Delivers Hybrid Cryptominer/Ransomware Infection

A hybrid Monero cryptominer and ransomware bug has hit 20,000 machines in 60 days. At its previous peak in February, the Monero Miner cryptocurrency ransominer was targeting more than 2,500 users a ...
WeLiveSecurity

Money-making machine: Monero-mining malware

While the world is holding its breath, wondering where notorious cybercriminal groups like Lazarus or Telebots will strike next with another destructive malware such as WannaCryptor or Petya, there ...
Threat Post

Cryptocurrency Mining Malware Hosted in Amazon S3 Bucket

Attackers are using an exploit kit to spread the Zminer executable that downloads a cryptocurrency miner hosted in an Amazon S3 bucket. As Bitcoin’s price continues to soar beyond $4,000 USD per, ...