Japan Convicts Man For Cryptojacking Website Visitors

Authorities in Japan have convicted a 32-year-old website designer for embedding a cryptojacking script onto his website without warning the victims he would be using their machines to mine cryptocurrency. A...

Firefox Gets Option to Block Crypto Mining Scripts

Mozilla has rolled out an update for its widely used web-browser Firefox and added an option to block crypto mining scripts. The feature has been added to the Firefox Quantum browser and is tucked inside the...

McAfee: Cryptojacking Increased by 4,000 Percent in 2018

Cybersecurity firm McAfee released a report this Thursday which showed a massive uptick in the use of cryptojacking malware over the course of 2018. A word that could have been coined only in the strange wor...