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A fast-moving botnet that appeared over the weekend has already infected thousands of Android devices with potentially destructive malware that mines digital coins on behalf of the unknown attackers, researchers said. The…

Bitcoin jumped almost $2,000 from its intraday low Tuesday, making up some of the losses it sustained from 2018’s January correction. As of press time, bitcoin was trading around $7,900, after hitting…

Share Tweet Share Share Email A giant mining botnet known as the Smominru miner has infected 526,000 Windows servers to mine digital currency Monero. According…