The attack starts with seemingly legitimate GitHub projects — like making Telegram bots for managing bitcoin wallets or tools for computer games.

Hackers blackmail YouTubers to promote SilentCryptoMiner, a crypto-mining Trojan, exploiting their reputations for malware distribution.

Hackers are creating hundreds of fake GitHub projects aiming to dupe users into downloading crypto and credential-stealing malware, says cybersecurity firm Kaspersky. Kaspersky analyst Georgy Kucherin ...

YouTube creators are being coerced by hackers to insert crypto-mining malware into their videos through copyright strikes and ...