2018’s security trends: malicious cryptomining Malicious cryptomining, also sometimes called drive-by mining, is when someone else is using your computer to mine cryptocurrency like Bitcoin or Monero: essentially, they are stealing your resources to make money. As the value of cryptocurrencies has increased significantly this new kind of threat has become mainstream, and for some…
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