25-05-2018 09:30 via newsbtc.com

New Mac Malware Monero Miner Discovered

Crypto mining is on the rise as bad actors have discovered decentralized mining is a lot cheaper than setting up a rig and paying the electricity bills to compete with massive mining pools and Apple users are not immune from being crypto jacked.
Mac Cryptominer uses Legitimet Software
In an earlier story this year NewsBTC reported that crypto jacking or drive by mining was up by 4000% in the first quarter of 2018 and now Mac owners are reporting a piece of malware called “mshelper”&n
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