Developers behind the cryptocurrency monero are ramping up efforts to keep specialized mining hardware from dominating its race for rewards. Of the coins that have a strong privacy focus, monero – ...

Cryptocurrency Monero announced on Tuesday it has partnered with Arweave to validate the new cryptocurrency proof-of-work algorithm, RandomX. According to Monero, RandomX promotes fair cryptocurrency ...

A cybersecurity firm has unearthed a monero mining script embedded in a public instance of an Amazon Web Service (AWS) virtual machine. Now the firm is raising the question: How many other community ...

Malware that mines cryptocurrency has made a comeback over the summer, with an increased number of campaigns being discovered and documented by cyber-security firms. The primary reason for this sudden ...

At least 5% of all the Monero cryptocurrency currently in circulation has been mined using malware, and about 2% of the total daily hashrate comes from devices infected with cryptocurrency-mining ...

New academic research has discovered that embedded cryptocurrecy miner CoinHive is generating $250,000 worth of Monero every month – most of it going to just 10 individuals. The research, released by ...

One hard fork later, there are four new Monero projects. Privacy-centric cryptocurrency Monero hard forked to version 12 of its protocol yesterday. But not everyone ...

Cryptocurrencies have become magnets for illicit activities such as theft and fraud. But one of less-reported crimes is the use of stolen processing power to mine currencies such as Bitcoin and Monero ...