A Turkish-based cryptocurrency malware called ‘Nitrokod’ has infected over 100,000 personal computers across 11 countries. What Happened: A new report from cybersecurity firm Check Point Research ...

Android Monero-mining malware surfaced last week, pretending to be a legitimate Google Play update app, according to research from Trend Micro. But AndroidsOS_HiddenMiner isn't the only Monero-mining ...

Security researchers last year wrote about a surge in the use by threat actors of the legitimate XMRig cryptominer, and cybersecurity firm Expel is now outlining the widening number of malicious ways ...

Sanders had contracted a server with German-based hosting company Hetzner and published his blog and website. However, on December 17, 2025, he received an email from Hetzner stating, 'We have ...

A Monero-mining botnet targeting Redis and OrientDB servers has infected nearly 4,400 servers and has mined over $925,000 worth of Monero since March 2017. Just three months after Princeton ...

Several solutions have been proposed to bolster Monero’s proof-of-work consensus mechanism to prevent 51% attacks on the network. Dash’s ChainLocks uses “randomly selected masternodes” to reach a ...

Is it possible to mine Monero without investing in mining equipment worth thousands of dollars? And, if so, is the effort worthwhile? This article will attempt to answer those questions. But before ...

Monero is a well-designed privacy coin with features that give it some important advantages over Bitcoin. These advantages include privacy, better fungibility, ASIC resistance, dynamic block size, a ...

The Monero chain is undergoing a successful 51% attack, with chain reorganization detected. One entity, the Qubic project, has managed an expensive takeover of more than half the hashrate, and has ...

January 2026 presents fresh questions about which crypto projects can sustain momentum as the year concludes. Monero price surged by more than 10 percent, advancing into the $388 to $410 territory, ...