<\/span><\/p>\nFor those of you who didn’t read our last piece, or who don’t already have an idea, mining cryptocurrency involves putting in the requisite work to solve a block in the blockchain and receive the reward. There’s a lot to unpack there. Blockchain is the backbone of cryptocurrency. It’s essentially a running cryptographic ledger that tracks all of the cryptocurrency’s movement. As transactions are added to the ledger, there are miners that are using their computing power to find a value that will close off that block and start a new one. When a block is closed, the miners receive a reward in the form of cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n
However, when I say computing power I don’t mean you can set up your laptop and start providing proof of work. It takes massive amounts of computing power. When done in a legitimate sense, people tend to group their computing power together and split the pot.<\/p>\n
When done illegitimately, hackers spread malware to take over peoples’ computers and then siphon off part of their computing power to help solve the block.<\/p>\n
Mining Using Android Phones<\/h2>\n
Researchers from Trend Micro recently discovered three Android apps with mining malware included. Two of them: Recitiamo Santo Rosario Free and SafetyNet Wireless use an in-browser Monero miner called “Coinhive.” The other: Car Wallpaper\u00a0HD, includes a malicious version of cpuminer.<\/p>\n
Coinhive has responded by releasing a new version of its mining software that runs scripts from a domain that requires computers to register themselves. Unfortunately, older versions of the malware are still supported.<\/p>\n
Google has already removed the apps from its Play Store.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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