Bitcoin Miners

Pierluigi Paganini August 31, 2017
Expert discovered 2,893 Bitcoin miners left exposed on the Internet

The popular Dutch security researcher Victor Gevers has discovered thousands of Bitcoin miners left exposed on the Internet. The popular security researcher Victor Gevers, the founder of the GDI Foundation, has discovered 2,893 Bitcoin miners left exposed on the Internet. I see about 2,893 Chinese Bitcoin "Thunder mining machines" online which are accessible via telnet […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 27, 2013
Bitcoin case – How cybercriminals exploit typosquatting

How cyber criminals could exploit typosquatting? The case of MtGox proposed by MalwareBytes, a fake domain used to serve malicious codes. Typosquatting, also called URL hijacking, is a common form of hacking which relies on mistakes such as typographical errors made by Internet users when typing the website address into the address bar of their browser. Should a user […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 02, 2013
Potentially Unwanted Programs secretly serve Bitcoin miner

Security experts at Malwarebytes discovered Potentially Unwanted Programs like Toolbars and Search Agents that installed Bitcoin miners on user’s PC The value of the Bitcoin for a few days has passed the psychological threshold of one thousand dollars, confirming its growth trend, the attention in the virtual currency scheme is at the highest levels and […]