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WHAT IS CRYPTOJACKING AND HOW TO PREVENT IT?

7th December 2018 by thom Leave a Comment

Cybercrime is at an all-time high. Although, the entire tech industry is doubling down on security; efforts have still been ineffective to stop the evil.

One of the many reasons for that is because black hats are becoming more ingenious with their exploitative methods.  Crypto jacking is one such example of their cunning minds. We can describe it as the unauthorised use of someone’s hardware to mine cryptocurrency. In simpler terms, it means that a program hijacks your computer, tablet or mobile phone and use the device to mine Cryptocurrencies. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Money, Responding to news, Security Tagged With: antivirus, cryptocurrency, cryptojacking

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