Over 170 mobile apps in the Android ecosystem have been identified as scam services designed to jump on the cryptocurrency bandwagon. Lookout researchers said this week that the apps, 25 of which were ...

Security firm Lookout found the apps, saying that they "advertise themselves as providing cloud cryptocurrency mining services for a fee". The team did a detailed analysis of the apps and found that ...

Dozens of Android Cryptocurrency Mining Apps Turn Out to Be Scams According to Lookout, 25 of the programs were available on the Google Play Store, ranging in price from $10.99 to $20.99. Google has ...

Scammers tricked at least 93,000 people into buying fake Android cryptocurrency mining applications, as revealed by researchers from California-based cybersecurity firm Lookout. The 172 paid Android ...

Android Monero-mining malware surfaced last week, pretending to be a legitimate Google Play update app, according to research from Trend Micro. But AndroidsOS_HiddenMiner isn't the only Monero-mining ...

I wonder how much the Monero price spike from $50 to $320 in the last month is driven by the availability of browser mining exploits. Monero transaction costs are about 5 times less than BitCoin, I ...

Cloud mining platforms have changed the way many people approach crypto mining. Instead of investing in expensive hardware, ...