Troy Mursch of Bad Packets Report has been featured, mentioned, or cited in the following publications.
CTV News – Raising The Alarm About Cryptojacking
I spoke with CTV’s Scott Laurie and shared the basics of cryptojacking. What it is, how it happens, and how to prevent it.
The Wall Street Journal – Your Computer May Be Making Bitcoin for Hackers
The Washington Post – Hackers have turned Politifact’s website into a trap for your PC
The Washington Post – Salon.com wants to use your PC to mine cryptocurrency
Krebs on Security – Website Flaw Let True Health Diagnostics Users View All Medical Records
Krebs on Security – Who and What Is Coinhive?
Ars Technica – Now even YouTube serves ads with CPU-draining cryptocurrency miners
Ars Technica – Thousands of servers found leaking 750MB worth of passwords and keys
Fortune – Popular Google Chrome Extension Caught Mining Cryptocurrency on Thousands of Computers
WIRED – Your Browser Could Be Mining Cryptocurrency For a Stranger
The Telegraph – Cryptojacking: The hackers mining digital currencies from your computer
BBC – Salon magazine mines crypto-cash with readers’ PCs
CBC News – ‘Cryptojacking’ hacker trend turns Canadians into cryptocurrency miners
The Register – CBS’s Showtime caught mining crypto-coins in viewers’ web browsers
The Register – Real Mad-quid: Murky cryptojacking menace that smacked Ronaldo site grows
The Register – More and more websites are mining crypto-coins in your browser to pay their bills, line pockets
The Register – Pulitzer-winning website Politifact hacked to mine crypto-coins in browsers
The Register – Mirai, Mirai, pwn them all, who’s the greatest botnet on the whole?
The Register – What do Vegas hookers, Colombian government, and 30,000 other sites have in common? Crypto-jacking miners
The Register – Crypto-jackers enlist Google Tag Manager to smuggle alt-coin miners
The Register – Guys, you’re killing us! LA Times homicide site hacked to mine crypto-coins on netizens’ PCs
The Register – Opt-in cryptomining script Coinhive ‘barely used’ say researchers
The Register – Cluster-f*ck! Etcd DBs spaff passwords, cloud keys to world by default
PC Magazine – Political Fact-Checking Site Hacked to Mine Cryptocurrency
PC Magazine – Coinhive Tries to Appease Critics With Opt-in Crypto Miner
PC Magazine – Why Hackers Love Cryptocurrency Miner Coinhive
PC Magazine – Chrome Extension Hacked to Secretly Mine Cryptocurrency
PC Magazine – Cryptocurrency Miner invades 4,000 Sites Via Third-Party Tool
PC Magazine – Can Cryptocurrency Mining Save The Media Industry?
International Business Times UK – Hackers covertly hide code on Politifact to hijack your PC, secretly mine cryptocurrencies
International Business Times UK – Popular Chrome extension with over 105,000 users found secretly mining cryptocurrency
International Business Times UK – Salon to readers: Let us use your PC to mine cryptocurrency in exchange for an ad-free website
Threatpost – Cryptojacking Attack Found on Los Angeles Times Website
Threatpost – Ad Network Circumvents Ad-Blocking Tools To Run In-Browser Cryptojacker Scripts
Threatpost – Rarog Trojan ‘Easy Entry’ For New Cryptomining Crooks, Report Warns
Bleeping Computer – The Internet Is Rife With In-Browser Miners and It’s Getting Worse Each Day
Bleeping Computer – Cryptojacking Craze: Malwarebytes Says It Blocks 8 Million Requests per Day
Bleeping Computer – Cookie Consent Script Drops In-Browser Cryptocurrency Miner
Bleeping Computer – Cryptojacking Script Found in Live Help Widget, Impacts Around 1,500 Sites
Bleeping Computer – Mirai Activity Picks up Once More After Publication of PoC Exploit Code
Bleeping Computer – Cryptojackers Found on Starbucks WiFi Network, GitHub, Pirate Streaming Sites
Bleeping Computer – Chrome Extension with 100,000 Users Caught Pushing Cryptocurrency Miner
Bleeping Computer – Using the Chrome Task Manager to Find In-Browser Miners
Bleeping Computer – Firefox Working on Protection Against In-Browser Cryptojacking Scripts
Newsweek en Español – SEP, UNAM y la Liga MX, fueron intervenidas para generar dinero con un código malicioso (SEP, UNAM and Liga MX, were intervened to generate money with a malicious code)
La Stampa – Truffe, crimini e ricatti online: dove nascono, come funzionano e perché sono difficili da fermare (Scams, crimes and blackmail online: where they are born, how they work and why they are difficult to stop)
La Stampa – Qualcuno potrebbe minare criptovalute col tuo browser, ecco come funziona il fenomeno (Someone could Mine cryptocurrencies with your browser, here’s how the phenomenon works)
TechRepublic – L.A. Times website injected with Monero cryptocurrency mining script
The Next Web – CBS’s Showtime caught secretly stealing visitors’ CPU power to mine cryptocurrency
The Next Web – Researcher finds 50,000 sites infected with cryptocurrency mining malware
Tripwire – LA Times homicide website throttles cryptojacking attack
Infosecurity Magazine – LA Times Hit with Crypto-Mining Software
BankInfoSecurity – Cryptojacking: Mitigating the Impact
Naked Security – Unsecured AWS led to cryptojacking attack on LA Times
Naked Security – Shodan and passwords sitting in a tree, S-H-O-W-I-N-G!
Liftr News – Report: Cryptojacking Trend Hits LA Times
Dark Reading – Cryptojacking Threat Continues to Rise
New Scientist – You may be making cryptocurrency for hackers without realising
Techdirt – Covert Cryptocurrency Miners Quickly Become A Major Problem
Techdirt – Cryptocurrency Mining Company Coinhive Shocked To Learn Its Product Is Being Abused
Business Insider – If your computer has slowed, you might be mining crypto coins for someone else — here’s how to stop it
CSO – What is cryptojacking? How to prevent, detect, and recover from it
CSO – How to detect and prevent crypto mining malware
ZDNet – Thousands of etcd installs are leaking secret server keys online
WeLiveSecurity – US and UK government websites hijacked to mine cryptocurrency on visitors’ machines
Mashable – Chrome extension is secretly mining cryptocurrency
Motherboard – ‘One of the Biggest’ Coinhive Users Made $7.69 In 3 Months
TechTarget – New cloud threats as attackers embrace the power of cloud
HackRead – After The Pirate Bay, Showtime Websites Also Found Mining Cryptocoins
HackRead – Chrome Extension with 105,000 installs is a Cryptocurrency Miner
HackRead – Hackers are using YouTube Ads to Mine Monero Cryptocurrency
HackRead – LA Times website hacked to mine Monero cryptocurrency
SmarterMSP – Threat Watch: Cryptojacking
Tom’s Hardware – Showtime Uses Online Viewers’ CPUs To Mine Cryptocurrency
Tom’s Hardware – The Rise Of Cryptojacking And How To Stop It
Gizmodo en Español – Es una plaga: Movistar infecta “por error” su propia web para minar criptomonedas a través de sus usuarios (It’s a plague: Movistar infects its own website “by mistake” to mine cryptocurrencies through its users)
CriptoNoticias – “No hay que tomarse los mineros web a la ligera” asegura Troy Mursch, investigador de ciberseguridad (We shouldn’t take web miners lightly,” says Troy Mursch, cybersecurity researcher.)
CriptoNoticias – Página web de Movistar España minaba monero de sus usuarios con Coinhive (Movistar Spain web page mines Monero from its users with Coinhive)
Inverse – Chrome Extension Secretly Used People’s Computers to Mine Cryptocurrency
Inverse – Tesla Latest Victim of Cryptojacking Attack, and More Could Come Soon
Inverse – Cryptojacking Attacks Continue as “Los Angeles Times” Falls Prey to Hackers
Inverse – Why This Cryptocurrency Mining Calendar App Wasn’t Such a Great Idea
Security Affairs – A new Mirai variant is rapidly spreading, around 100,000 IPs running the scans in the past 60 hours
BizTech – How Cryptojacking Could Harm Your IT Environment
ExtremeTech – Showtime Caught Mining Cryptocurrency With Viewers’ PCs
Complex – Showtime’s Website Might Have Been Hacked to Mine Cryptocoin