# XMR News

In the first few years of Bitcoin’s existence, one of the features that attracted the most attention from early advocates was the ability to make private transactions. Bitcoin’s Privacy Woes In a financial system where banks, businesses and government authorities heavily monitor consumer purchases, the ability for one to vanish...

Monero seems to be experiencing a bit of a bug problem as on March 4, 2019, the Ledger team warned about the use of the Nano S wallet after user funds were lost. The day before, Monero themselves had warned users about a bug that sends fake deposits to exchanges....

The crypto winter has claimed yet another firm as Coinhive announced on February 26, 2019, that they would be discontinuing their services from March 8, 2019. Saying Goodbye Perhaps the most apparent after-effect of the crypto crash of 2018 was the near-immediate decline in the mining sector. As the price...

Cybersecurity firm JASK Inc. published a study on February 5, 2019, detailing the wave of cryptojacking attacks in November 2018 that mined privacy-centric cryptocurrency Monero (XMR) on target user’s computer system. Romanian Hacker Group “Outlaw” to Blame According to research conducted by JASK, an upgraded and modified version of trojan Shellbot...

According to a January 17, 2019, press release from Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42, a threat intelligence team, a Linux mining malware developed by Rocke group has advanced to uninstall cloud security products from Alibaba Cloud and Tencent Cloud to illegally mine Monero (XMR) on compromised machines. Monero (XMR) Mining...