Dark web marketplace AlphaBay, which relaunched in August 2021 after law enforcement took it down in 2017, now has 30K+ unique product listings, largely drugs
a feat that may very soon be pulled off by AlphaBay, the once and future king of the contraband crypto-economy. https://www.wired.com/... Howard Chu / @hyc_symas : The biggest darkweb market now is Mo...
How Monero, a cryptocurrency that obscures the sender and receiver, is increasingly being used by ransomware gangs wary of bitcoin's traceability
Untraceable ‘privacy coin’ is rising in popularity among ransomware gangs, posing problems for law enforcement Tweets: @tomhillenbrand , @katie_martin_fx , and @financialtimes Tweets: @tomhillenbrand ...
Malware that steals cryptocurrency found embedded in some versions of Monero's official client app available on its site; Monero team says it is investigating
The Monero Project is currently investigating a potential compromise of the official website after a coin stealer was found …
A flood of fake Adobe Flash installers are reportedly installing XMRig, an open source crypto mining malware that siphons generated funds to a Monero wallet
Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch :
A flood of fake Adobe Flash installers are reportedly installing XMRig, an open source crypto mining malware that siphons generated funds to a Monero wallet
If you think that Flash, the once-popular web plugin, couldn't die fast enough, even those annoying fake Flash installers riddled …
Monero devs disclose major bug in Monero wallets that would have let attackers maliciously “burn” XMR cryptocurrency; private fix was first pushed to exchanges
David Canellis / The Next Web :
17 backdoored Docker images, posted to Docker Hub over the past year and downloaded 5M+ times, removed; some were used to mine at least $90K worth of Monero
17 images posted by a single account over 10 months may have generated $90,000. — A single person or group may have made as much as $90,000 …
At least 5% of all Monero currently in circulation has been mined using malware, based on an analysis of 629,126 malware samples from coin mining operations
Catalin Cimpanu / BleepingComputer.com :
Calendar 2 for Mac updated to mine Monero by default; after poor reviews, dev removes app from App Store, says mining will be gone in new version, citing bugs
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica :
Bitcoin's high transaction fees, delays, and limited anonymity spur cybercriminals towards altcoins like Monero
Danny Palmer / ZDNet :