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1 million crypto-jacking attempts blocked daily, despite Coinhive’s demise

Thursday, May 2, 2019 by Piyush Suthar | Comments

Home News Tech 1 million crypto-jacking attempts blocked daily, despite Coinhive’s demise

The cryptocurrency mining script Coinhive may have shut down earlier this year, but crypto-jackers are still active across the internet. Many devices originally infected with Coinhive are also still trying to illicitly mine cryptocurrency. According to new figures from Malwarebytes, the cybersecurity firm blocked over 200,000 requests to connect to the Coinhive network the day after it shut down on March 8. Domain requests have since tailed off to an average of 50,000 per day over the past week. Malwarebytes is also blocking over 1 million cryptocurrency mining requests per day from Coinhive competitor CoinLoot. Late last year, reports suggested…

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Authored by Piyush Suthar
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