Previously, the digital world had to protect your social network accounts, bank accounts and valuable information for you, because someone in another part of the world could use it in your favor, damaging you; The cryptocurrency revolution has not only affected financial markets and the conception of money, it has influenced how and why you can be hacked to manipulate you.
As it has been exposed in other posts, and is public knowledge, cryptocurrency mining has recently boomed, causing people to require greater technological reach.
Some prefer to improve their own computer to mine in their name, others prefer to create online servers to mine remotely, and those who prefer to use your computer or device to obtain the benefits of mining.
In CryptoTendence we have already exposed some cases that are known in the world, today we will show you a recent case and how you should fight it:
The case of the Monero cryptocurrency and Android devices: the analyst Jérôme Segura, MalwarebytesLAB malware specialist, recently presented the case where from November 2017 to the present a malware had circulated that, when a certain web page was opened, took you to another asking you to complete a captcha.
The analyst managed to observe that while completing the captcha, your device is used to mine the Monero cryptocurrency (XMR). To avoid being so suspicious, several web domains were used:
recycloped.com 2017-11-22
rcyclmnr.com 2017-12-01
rcylpd.com 2018-01-03
rcyclmnrepv.com 2018-01-17
rcyclmnrhgntry.com 2018-01-22
Segura calculates that between the pages a total of 60 million times have been visited and it is not predictable how much profit has been obtained from it.
Image extracted from MalwarebyteLAB to show what the page looks like
The analyst suspects that most users should be Android because it does not have a pre-installed Web filter like iOS, and this is exactly the recommendation to users: be careful with the pages when browsing and get a good antivirus.