SilentCryptoMiner infects 2,000 users by posing as a restriction bypass tool, leveraging YouTube and Telegram for distribution.

Cybercriminals have been targeting YouTubers with fake copyright claims, threatening them into distributing malware through ...

If the host machine has at least eight CPU cores, it downloads and runs an XMRig miner. The XMRig miner used in StaryDobry is a modified version of the Monero miner that constructs its ...

Facct’s team has tracked the use of this novel delivery mechanism since the end of May, identifying over 150 emails embedded ...

However, since mid-June this year, crooks started scanning for vulnerable instances, dropping the XMRig miner where possible.

The attack first fingerprints the victim machine and determines the country in which it's based before installing a "slightly modified XMRig miner executable." The crypto-miner will only activate ...