Hackers exploit PHP flaw (CVE-2024-4577) to deploy Quasar RAT and XMRig miners, with Taiwan hit hardest. Update PHP now to ...

Facct’s team has tracked the use of this novel delivery mechanism since the end of May, identifying over 150 emails embedded with the XMRig miner, a legitimate open-source application repurposed ...

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

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 ...