McAfee Labs Discover Russian Crypto Mining Malware, Correlation with Monero Price | NewsBTC
McAfee Labs has announced the discovery of WebCobra, a Russian coin mining malware which explores victim's computing power. Security researcher Kapil McAfee Labs has announced the discovery of WebCobra, malware which explores victims' computing power, that may be linked to the price of Monero.
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I read this earlier. This is becoming a major problem globally.
McAfee is a nut but I believe he is trying to do some good. The fact that malware mining is becoming so common means that the security experts need to step up. I am not sure if this has to take place at the browser level or on the anti-malware.
We are seeing this more and more, we need the anti virus companies to come up with a fix for this, once and for all.
Well, they´d better do it fast before the malware explodes and affects world wide