Zcash is a new virtual currency that claims to be more anonymous than bitcoin, and has garnered interest from academics, investors, and criminals. Perhaps thanks to the latter group, hackers are ...

A view of how the PGMiner botnet works to infect database servers (Source: Palo Alto Networks) Researchers with Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 are tracking a relatively new cryptomining botnet called ...

XMRogue would let defenders submit invalid mining job results from infected computers to get a proxy server banned from the botnet. For years, CSOs have been fighting botnets that are stealing ...

The RapperBot campaign is bringing in some fresh talent to its arsenal of malware beats, adding cryptomining capability to its existing distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) botnet malware in order to ...