mining

Mining is the maintenance of the cryptocurrency payment system in working order. What is a "cryptocurrency payment system"? It is a decentralized payment system that: It is located on the Internet. Open to all. Its copies are kept by different persons. Protected by cryptographic methods...

The State Duma adopted laws regulating mining, cryptocurrency turnover and foreign digital financial assets, as well as the use of digital currency in foreign trade activities. In the final version of the document, the deputies rejected the ban on the work of crypto exchanges and did not ban...

The Russian government is preparing tough measures to regulate electricity consumption. In Russia, it is planned to tighten control over the mining of cryptocurrencies. The Expert Council under the government proposed to conduct remote checks through meters in order to compare the declared and...

Corporate networks have fallen victim to new methods of attacks by North Korean hackers. North Korean hackers used the eScan antivirus update mechanism to place bookmarks in corporate networks and distribute cryptocurrency miners using the GuptiMiner malware. The Avast reports that the...

Vulnerabilities in the service allow hackers to perform all their malicious actions. Microsoft identified new critical vulnerabilities on the OpenMetadata platform that are used to gain access to workloads in the Kubernetes environment and subsequent cryptomining. OpenMetadata is an open...

Critics pointed to Greenpeace's "factual errors" in the report. The environmental organization Greenpeace USA has released a report "Mining for Power", which criticizes the activities of bitcoin miners and their ties to the government. The report's findings caused discontent in the crypto...

CVE-2024-27198 opened a compromise portal for hackers. When will the administrators close it? Attackers continue to actively exploit vulnerabilities in the JetBrains TeamCity software, deploying ransomware, cryptocurrency miners, Cobalt Strike beacons, and Spark RAT remote access Trojans. The...

As antivirus developers from ESET found out, in the last few months, fraudsters began to secretly mine Feathercoin, Litecoin and Monero cryptocurrencies using users browsers and computers while they are on the site. And if The Pirate Bay itself implemented a JavaScript miner in the site code as...