Mining Bitcoin on mobile devices has significant technical and financial limitations. Cloud mining is a more practical option for smartphone users who want to engage with Bitcoin mining. Joining ...

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Security firm Lookout found the apps, saying that they "advertise themselves as providing cloud cryptocurrency mining services for a fee". The team did a detailed analysis of the apps and found that ...

Most Android malware is at best annoying, but rarely does it cause physical damage to a phone. Not so with Loapi, a newly-discovered trojan with a cryptocurrency miner that worked a phone so hard its ...

The botnet uses port scanning code from Mirai, a first for Android-related attacks, according to researchers. A new botnet that distributes malware for mining Monero cryptocurrency has emerged, ...

A new strain of Android malware will continuously use an infected device's CPU to mine the Monero cryptocurrency until the device is exhausted or even breaks down. Security company Trend Micro has ...

Although Bitcoins are valuable as digital currencies go, mining them is a relatively inefficient way of making money, due to the incredible amount of processing power required to produce them. This ...

New Monero-mining malware ADB.Miner has infected 7,000 Android devices, including smartphones and TVs, cybersecurity researchers report. As 360Netlab reports, the ADB.Miner worm scans can affect any ...

Shouldn't this be something that the phone actively prevents? I mean let's pretend that cryptocurrencies don't exist. This exploit has still shown one could create malware that destroys phone hardware ...