Anti-malware vendor Bitdefender has discovered that Microsoft OneDrive is being used by crypto-jackers to mine cryptocurrency. The threat actors are using the DLL hijacking method to do so.
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Ethereum cryptocurrency and its loyal crypto-miners are at an inflection point. The transition from PoW to PoS was smooth, but that has made expensive crypto mining rigs all but irrelevant.
Antminer has been teasing its new E9 cryptocurrency ASIC miner for a very long time. Today, the E9 has launched, though the final official performance numbers seem to be lower than initial claims.
NebuTech's NBMiner has beaten NiceHash as it becomes the first to bring 100% LHR unlock to Linux PCs. The news follows the recent 100% LHR unlock for Windows that was released by the latter.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has fined Nvidia for not telling investors that their rise in revenue in 2018 was due to cryptomining interest rather than its gaming business.
In December last year, Sapphire launched a couple of dedicated mining cards for crypto-miners. The larger among the two variants, the GPRO X080, is already 38% down in price since it launched.
Nvidia's upcoming budget gaming GPU, the $249 RTX 3050, could be a great graphics card for gamers. That's because early alleged Ethereum mining numbers for the GPU suggest it is pretty poor at it.
Alleged "4090TI" and "RX7000" have been spotted in a cryptocurrency mining pool farming Ethereum. These devices are capable of outputting over 2.5TH/s combined but are probably not real GPUs.
Testing shows Nvidia's new RTX 2060 12GB graphics card is extremely efficient at cryptocurrency mining. The GPU is producing efficiency levels of close to 400kH/J. The card can also game decently.
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The Radeon RX 6600 XT may be the most power-efficient Ethereum mining GPU according to a video that shows its alleged performance. The card is apparently doing 32MH/s while sipping just 55W of power.
PNY has launched its new LX series of M.2 PCIe Gen 3 NVMe SSDs, namely the LX3030 and LX2030 models. The new SSDs are designed for Chia cryptocurrency mining with very high endurance (TBW) ratings.
Chia cryptocurrency farming is not a long-term profitable venture, finds a study conducted by Backblaze. The company has run a cost-benefit analysis of the coin to reach this conclusion.
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According to a new report today, prices for GPUs are finally coming down. It says that German retailers have noted a significant fall in Nvidia GeForce graphics card prices over the last two months.
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A farmer from the UK has started using the waste produced from his farm's cows to mine Ethereum cryptocurrency using GPU mining rigs. What's more, the business appears to be growing.
The Chia crypto-coin has been causing shortages of storage hardware like SSDs and HDDs. Some of the SSD makers have now started to react by reducing the endurance and warranties on their products.
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Mozilla has turned on tracking protections for all Firefox users with the latest update. Just 20% of users were protected before today but the figure is expected to reach 100% when users update.
Mozilla has released Firefox 67 onto the stable branch. The update is pretty big with initial support for WebRender and the inclusion of a cryptomining and fingerprinting blocker to enhance privacy.
Andy OS, a popular desktop Android emulator, has been reportedly found to install a cryptomining malware. The report has been denied, but there is quite a bit of information proving otherwise.
