Posted on 02/16/2018 12:06:12 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Malwarebytes first discovered the malware when investigating a separate campaign late last month. Specifically, the team was testing a malvertising chain on Windows and Chrome that would lead to tech support scams, but when they tested the same chain on Android, they were “redirected via a series of hops to that cryptomining page.”
The page in question features a warning message and a CAPTCHA code. Until the user enters the code, the website will proceed to mine Monero cryptocurrency (XMR) at full speed. Malwarebytes found several identical domains, all of which use the same CAPTCHA code. The first was registered in November 2017, while the latest of the five domains they found (of which there may be many more) was registered less than a month ago.
Malwarebytes estimates that the five domains it identified attain around 800,000 visits per day, with visitors spending an average of four minutes on the site. It’s impossible to determine how much money this nets the crypto-miners, but the team estimates that they are only taking in a few thousand dollars a month. And yet, as Malwarebytes notes, the unpredictable fluctuation of cryptocurrencies means that the profit could increase exponentially overnight.
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“Monero cryptocurrency “
huh?
There are a lot of cryptocurrencys, at least 15 of them well known but there are thousands. Monero is one of the larger of them. Bitcoin is the biggest, Litecoin is probably next.
Think I understand and appreciate the concept of crypto-currency.
However, I don’t get this “mining” for bitcoins. How does one “mine” currency?
Or drop to zero.
See wikipedia more much more detail.
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