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Researchers Say 50,000 Servers Worldwide Infected With Privacy Coin Cryptojacking Malware

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By  Marie Huillet As many as 50,000 servers worldwide have allegedly been infected with an advanced  cryptojacking  malware that mines the privacy-focused open source cryptocurrency turtlecoin (TRTL). The news was  revealed  in an analysis by international hacker and cybersecurity expert group Guardicore Labs on May 29. As reported, cryptojacking is an industry term for stealth crypto mining attacks which work by installing malware that uses a computer’s processing power to  mine  for cryptocurrencies without the owner’s consent or knowledge. Having first detected the campaign in April and traced its origins and progress, Guardicore Labs believes the malware has infected up to 50,000 Windows MS-SQL and PHPMyAdmin servers over the past four months worldwide. The analysts backdated attacks to late February, noting the campaign’s precipitous expansion at a rate of over “seven hundred new victims per day.” Between April 13 and May 13, t...

Mining with GPU, a way to earn cryptocurrencies with little effort

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  By Moris Beracha .- Different companies that manufacture computer hardware and electronic components have launched campaigns to offer their users, a kind of “passive” mining that will allow them to make profits in cryptocurrencies with very little effort. The decision is basically due to the resounding fall in the prices of the main digital currencies, which have hit hard the assets of these companies. Given this reality, the Taiwanese company Asus, has decided to take action on the matter, specifying an alliance with Quantumcloud to develop a software that allows users of its gaming equipment, to mine cryptocurrencies while our GPU is at rest. To date the Asian technology giant has not offered details of how this tool will work and they have not explained which cryptocurrencies can be mined through it. Although the Quantumcloud website ensures that users of their application “will not get rich quickly,” they argue if they can get some money w...

Till blockchain do us part

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By Moris Beracha .- The blockchain technology is a public database decentralized in a computer network that is used to record all kinds of transactions. Roma Siri, born on November 8, 2015, also known as the “Baby Blockchain”, was the first human being whose birth was registered in the blockchain. Now in 2019, some public institutions worldwide have decided to make official records through the blockchain and the United States has been a pioneer in this activity. According to an article published by the Associates Press (AP) news agency, it was known that some counties in the state of Nevada are using the best known online registry book in the world to store digital versions of birth and marriage certificates. “The Reno Gazette-Journal reports that as of December in Washoe County, about 950 couples had received secure digital marriage certificates to home computers and smartphones since the program debuted in April 2018,” reads the memo published b...

Can your computer mine Bitcoins?

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By  Moris Beracha .-  Since the arrival of Bitcoin, computers now have another function: to make small amounts of money with cryptocurrencies. However, mining is not as simple as turning on a computer. Your computer hardware is a key factor when mining and will make the difference between making money with cryptocurrency or even losing money. Computer Hoy  explains that to mine Bitcoin or any other cryptocurrency your computer must be permanently solving algorithms that will limit the processing capacity of your hardware. The more efficient it is in solving those calculations, the greater the reward. In the case of bitcoins, one or several high-end graphic cards are required to increase mining capacity and computational processing of the computer. To know if the capacity of a hardware is profitable for bitcoin mining, the internet has calculators that will help any user. It is recommended to visit the NiceHash profitability calculator, one of the ...