2011 Mining Security 
The Last Watchdog
JUNE 20, 2018
On the face, the damage caused by cryptojacking may appear to be mostly limited to consumers and website publishers who are getting their computing resources diverted to mining fresh units of Monero, Ethereum and Bytecoin on behalf of leeching attackers. In 2011, total cryptocurrency value was about $10 billion. It was insane.
Security Affairs
OCTOBER 26, 2020
Security experts spotted a new botnet, tracked as KashmirBlack botnet, that likely infected hundreds of thousands of websites since November 2019. The primary purpose of the KashmirBlack botnet is to abuse resources of compromised systems for cryptocurrency mining and redirecting a site’s legitimate traffic to spam pages.
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Security Affairs
DECEMBER 7, 2021
The blockchain-enabled botnet has been active since at least 2011, researchers estimate that the Glupteba botnet is currently composed of more than 1 million Windows PCs around the world. The post Google disrupts the Glupteba botnet appeared first on Security Affairs. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.
Security Affairs
DECEMBER 19, 2022
The blockchain-enabled botnet has been active since at least 2011, researchers estimated that the Glupteba botnet was composed of more than 1 million Windows PCs around the world as of December 2021. The post Glupteba botnet is back after Google disrupted it in December 2021 appeared first on Security Affairs. Pierluigi Paganini.
Security Affairs
APRIL 28, 2023
The blockchain-enabled botnet has been active since at least 2011, researchers estimated that the Glupteba botnet was composed of more than 1 million Windows PCs around the world as of December 2021.
Security Affairs
AUGUST 8, 2018
Security researchers at Checkpoint security have spotted a massive proxy botnet, tracked as ‘Black’ botnet, created by Ramnit operators. A few months later Ramnit was back, the researchers at IBM security discovered a new variant of the popular Ramnit Trojan. Security Affairs – cybercrime, Ramnit botnet).
Krebs on Security
OCTOBER 1, 2019
Škorjanc and his hacker handle Iserdo were initially named in a Justice Department indictment from 2011 (PDF) along with two other men who allegedly wrote and sold the Mariposa botnet code. An advertisement for the ButterFly Bot. Slovenian police are reportedly still investigating that incident.
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