2019-10-12 22:00 |
Singaporean citizen Ho Jun Jia has been indicted for stealing over $5 million worth of cloud computing services to mine cryptocurrencies.
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A 29-year-old man from Singapore faces 34 years in prison after allegedly stealing Amazon AWS and Google Cloud computing power and services to mine crypto. Stole Victims’ Information to Mine Crypto Ho Jun Jia also known as Matthew Ho was taken into the custody of the Singapore Police Force on September 26 after being charged under a 14-count indictment.
2019-10-11 18:00 | |
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A Singaporean man faces over 30 years in prison for masquerading as a Californian games developer to illicitly obtain cloud computing power to mine cryptocurrency, an FBI investigation has revealed.
2019-10-10 11:26 | |
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The United States prosecutors officially indict a man from Singapore for stealing Amazon Web Services’ cloud computing power to mine cryptocurrencies
2019-10-10 08:55 | |
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Capital One hacker Paige Thompson had been using stolen computing power to mine cryptocurrencies, a federal grand jury indictment revealed.
2019-8-30 10:00 | |
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The Bitcoin market is growing a lot lately. Do you want proof of that? Just look at the hash rates. According to data taken from Bitinfocharts, the BTC hash rate has overcome 80 quintillion SHA256 hashes for the first time in its history.
2019-8-9 21:54 | |
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Researchers from the University of Crete and the University of Illinois at Chicago have published a study showing that a website that hosts at least three ads can produce five-and-a-half times the revenue of a website that uses a cryptojacking script to mine with visitors' computing power.
2019-8-9 19:14 | |
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Criminals made a staggering 52. 7 million cryptojacking hits during the first six months of the year. According to the latest research from SonicWall, cryptojacking activity rose by 9 percent between January and June 2019 when compared to levels seen in the last six months of 2018.
2019-7-24 13:01 | |
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An early computing expert has been restoring the guidance system used by NASA to land a man on the moon in the 1960s. Ken Sheriff has also programmed the machine to run Bitcoin code but says it would take an insanely long time to mine a single Bitcoin block using the once-high tech hardware.
2019-7-9 00:00 | |
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This article was originally published by 8btc and written by Lylian Teng. Some Chinese listed companies have jumped on the bandwagon of bitcoin mining following the bitcoin bull run throughout 2017, either under the guise of cloud computing or providing mining hosting services, in an effort to bypass regulations considering the country’s tough stance on bitcoin.
2019-5-29 18:53 | |
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BitDeer. com is the world’s leading computing power sharing platform, enabling global users to mine cryptocurrencies in a transparent, reliable and convenient way. It saves users from the complicated process of purchasing, installing, and hosting mining machines.
2019-5-28 08:12 | |
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This article was originally published by 8btc and written by Lylian Teng. Many Chinese cryptominers have migrated to places with cheap electricity and favorable policies as a result of the escalated government crackdown on cryptocurrency and its production process.
2019-4-11 23:38 | |
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A court in Japan has acquitted an individual accused of embedding a cryptojacking malware in his website to surreptitiously mine cryptocurrency using the computing power of the visitors to the site. Local Japanese media platform, The Mainichi reports that the court ruled that such activity wasn’t a criminal offense. Meanwhile, Internet security experts continue toRead More
2019-3-29 20:00 | |
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A Japanese web designer has been given the right to walk, despite “borrowing” the computing power of unsuspecting users to mine cryptocurrency. The 31-year-old web designer appeared in court today and was acquitted of stealing his user’s computing resources with a Monero mining script called Coinhive, local news outlet The Mainichi reports.
2019-3-27 16:52 | |
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There have been several hackers that stole users’ spare computing power to mine virtual currencies. Other attackers targeted large websites and injected crypto mining software to steal users’ computing power when they were visiting the site.
2019-3-20 20:01 | |
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With shrinking profit margins and the closure of Coinhive, cryptojacking looks like it’s coming to an end. The in-browser Monero mining program was conceived as a means of legitimately monetizing web pages.
2019-3-14 22:15 | |
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SINGAPORE – BitDeer. com, the world’s leading computing power-sharing platform is announcing a strategic partnership with ViaBTC, one of the world’s largest Bitcoin mining pools. The partnership allows users of BitDeer.
2019-2-25 16:44 | |
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China-based mining giant Bitmain has announced a new mining rig that uses less power. The hardware mining manufacturer has launched a 7nm application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) processor dubbed the BM1397.
2019-2-19 00:53 | |
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CryptoNinjas azultec, provider of an eco-friendly concept for cloud computing, has announced the official launch of its ICO (Initial Coin Offering) to begin on March 5th, 2019, at 3 pm (CET).
2019-1-22 18:13 | |
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Welcome to Hard Fork Basics, a collection of tips, tricks, guides, and advice to keep you up to date in the cryptocurrency and blockchain world. When Satoshi Nakamoto published the Bitcoin whitepaper, the concept of mining was pretty simple.
2019-1-16 14:02 | |
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One of the most common hacks to punctuate the 2018 cryptocurrency media was illicit crypto-mining, also known as crypto-jacking, a recent report shows just how widespread it is becoming. According to the latest report from cyber security firm McAfee Labs, 2018 saw a 4000-percent increase in instances of crypto-mining malware.
2018-12-20 15:06 | |
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Computer gaming company Razer is turning towards cryptocurrency mining to augment revenue and appeal to youth, rewarding users with tokens to spend in a Razer-focused marketplace in turn of trading computing resources to mine digital assets.
2018-12-15 23:34 | |
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Bail Bloc allows people to donate their computing power to mine Monero on behalf of detained migrants.
2018-12-14 00:14 | |
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SoftMiner – Razer’s Cryptocurrency Mining Solution For Gamers Leading manufacturer of gaming hardware, Razer, has introduced a software that uses the computing power of idle gaming rigs to mine cryptocurrencies.
2018-12-13 19:54 | |
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CryptoNinjas BitDeer announced today its official launch as a computing power-sharing platform and strategic partnerships with BTC. com and AntPool, two of the largest cryptocurrency mining pools.
2018-12-13 03:22 | |
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BEIJING, CHINA – On December 12th, 2018, BitDeer announced its official launch as a world-class computing power-sharing platform and strategic partnerships with BTC. com and AntPool, the world’s largest cryptocurrency mining pools.
2018-12-13 01:21 | |
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Researchers have discovered over 415,000 routers across the globe have been infected with malware designed to steal their computing power and secretly mine cryptocurrency. The attack, which is still ongoing, affects MikroTik routers in particular.
2018-12-4 20:38 | |
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It seems crypto-jackers have absolutely no ethical standards. After governments, universities, and technology giants, even charitable organizations are finding themselves at the receiving end of cryptocurrency malware.
2018-11-19 19:42 | |
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McAfee Labs researchers have discovered new Russian malware, dubbed WebCobra, which harnesses victims’ computing power to mine Monero (XMR) and Zcash (ZEC). “Coin mining malware is difficult to detect.
2018-11-14 16:49 | |
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Is your computer suddenly sluggish and hot all the time? You might have fallen victim to this new Russian malware designed to steal your computing power to secretly mine cryptocurrency. Researchers from McAfee labs have discovered a new breed of crypto-jacking malware which cannibalizes your computing power to mine Monero or Zcash.
2018-11-13 19:56 | |
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A Canadian university had to shut down its entire campus network after it discovered hackers had hijacked its computing power to surreptitiously mine cryptocurrency – Bitcoin, to be exact. In a statement released earlier this week, Nova Scotia-based St.
2018-11-7 13:44 | |
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WinMiner brings forward a unique platform which enables everyone to efficiently harness and to optimize unused computing power through a comprehensive cryptocurrency mining algorithm. Cryptocurrency Mining Made Simple WinMiner presents a platform which allows mining of the most profitable digital currencies at any given moment.
2018-10-23 21:00 | |
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Cryptojacking is becoming a nuisance for PCs, and mobile users around the globe as the computing power of their devices is being used without their explicit permission to mine digital currencies.
2018-10-18 17:49 | |
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Bitcoin, the world’s most sought-after cryptocurrency, could be at the wish and whim of Asia’s economic giant. A recent study titled “The Looming Threat of China: An Analysis of Chinese Influence on Bitcoin,” jointly researched by Princeton University and Florida International University researchers, suggests China’s mining scene has an overwhelming influence over Bitcoin, something that could invite network manipulation.
2018-10-11 00:29 | |
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The Monero community has publicly denounced the individuals behind the massive cryptocurrency mining malware campaign, designed to steal users’ computing power to illegitimately bank on XMR. “The Monero community condemns this malicious, non-consensual use of equipment to mine,” the statement reads.
2018-9-28 16:38 | |
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Cryptojacking, an attempt to use a device’s spare computing power to mine digital currencies, is gaining ground ever since crypto assets started getting mainstream acceptance. Researchers from China’s Fudan University and Tsinghua University collaborated with the University of California Riverside to produce the first systematic study of these attacks.
2018-9-27 17:59 | |
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As an emerging cog in the global digital economy, cloud mining offers a tool for enthusiasts to mine cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin without having to acquire hardware or other oft-required elements.
2018-9-11 16:09 | |
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The world’s biggest Bitcoin mining pool is now set on dominating Ethereum. BTC. com, a subsidiary of cryptocurrency mining hardware giant Bitmain, has today released a new client specifically built to mine the Ethereum blockchain.
2018-8-30 15:00 | |
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Bitcoin mining was once an activity for techies. An activity that made the most of powerful computing rigs in order to mine and develop a currency which could be used to hide away from the ruling class.
2018-8-16 23:00 | |
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It is widely known that Microsoft are exploring and building upon blockchain technology. As one of the biggest tech and computing brands in the world, they don’t really have a choice in the matter.
2018-8-9 06:00 | |
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Steam has removed “trivial platformer” game Abstractism from its store following accusations that the game is surreptitiously stealing users’ computing power to mine cryptocurrency. “We have removed Abstractism and banned its developer from Steam for shipping unauthorized code, trolling with content, and scamming customers with deceptive in-game items,” Doug Lombardi, VP of Marketing at Steam, told Hard Fork in an email.
2018-7-31 12:50 | |
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Mining Contracts Restored On HashFlare Mining has exploded in popularity in recent years. In the initial days of Bitcoin, miners were few and the profits were significant. Computing power had to be very high, and the miner needed to have a deep technical understanding of how the process worked in order to mine Bitcoin. But […]
2018-7-27 22:37 | |
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One major class of attacks to hit the hacking landscape recently is cryptomining. While cryptomining on its own supports a good cause when being done consciously, it also allows nefarious actors to make a lot of money fast, and, with the sheer number of cryptocurrencies available to mine, it is becoming a popular choice for attackers.
2018-7-18 23:18 | |
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Cryptocurrency has an incredible use when it comes to charity. Not only would many consider that crypto is far easier to donate than FIAT currency, psychologically, one could assume that crypto is far easier to dispose of in this manner.
2018-7-16 14:00 | |
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League of Legends players in the Philippines are in a state after it was discovered that a malicious script used to mine cryptocurrencies by hijacking users’ computing power was discovered in the game’s Garena client.
2018-7-13 10:00 | |
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Animoca Brands closed a funding round supporting the acceleration of the Mocaverse to create digital IDs and a point system for Web3 culture, gaming and entertainment.
The investigation began after numerous data collections in five major jurisdictions of the country, the Argentinian Agency for Access to Public Information said.
The head of product at Tools for Humanity told Cointelegraph that Worldcoin is expecting more companies to integrate in the second half of the year.
New reports reveal that Worldcoin plans to expand its operations to sign up more users by allowing organizations and governments to access its technology.
Concerns around privacy, security and reported connections to Sam Bankman-Fried and Three Arrows Capital have raised eyebrows in the crypto community.
Sam Altman co-founded Worldcoin released its network on Monday.
Sam Altman co-founded Worldcoin released its network on Monday.