Cryptojacking

Attackers are actively exploiting a high-severity authentication flaw in Apple’s macOS Screen Sharing service, gaining root access to internet-exposed Macs and installing Monero cryptocurrency miners. The Netherlands’ National Cyber Security Centre has identified active exploitation on multiple systems with port 5900 exposed to the internet. Users running affected macOS versions should install Apple’s August security updates immediately and avoid exposing Screen Sharing directly to the public internet. Attackers Bypass Screen Sharing Authentication Tracked as CVE-2026-65400, the vulnerability affects the authentication…

A former Digital River employee has been ordered to pay more than $45,000 back to his previous employer after unlawfully using company computing systems to mine cryptocurrency. Joshua Paul Armbrust, 45, was sentenced Tuesday to three years’ probation by US District Judge Jerry Blackwell, following his April guilty plea to a felony computer fraud charge. Armbrust’s Covert Mining Scheme Exposed According to court filings, Armbrust continued exploiting Digital River’s resources for over a year after leaving the Minnetonka-based e-commerce and…

Following the press release on the 8th of January this year, the report elaborated on the joint efforts established in collaboration between Trend Micro and Interpol that significantly target the issues dealing with cryptojacking that primarily affects MikroTik routers mostly in the regions of southeast Asia. The impact on the hash rates presented in cryptocurrency mining has not been significantly affected, even based on this act of collaboration between the two organizations. However, there has been a significant reflection on the decreased cryptojacking incidents based on…

What Cryptojacking Looks Like In 2026 Cryptojacking is the unauthorized use of someone else’s computing power to mine cryptocurrency. The attacker does not need to steal coins directly. The profit comes from turning the victim’s device, server, browser session, cloud account, container, or developer environment into mining infrastructure. The victim pays through electricity, cloud bills, degraded performance, hardware stress, downtime, and security exposure. The modern version is not limited to a miner running on a personal laptop. It can hit…