Researchers from FireEye have found the first use in the wild of a new kind of injection technique that was first described in October. The technique is used by the RIG exploit kit to inject code that ...

Monero's lack of programmable scripts prevents it from scaling in layers and reaching mass adoption. The absence of ASIC resistance in Bitcoin doesn't hinder its decentralization, as miners seek out ...

Privacy and anonymity are central to Monero. Monero can be mined either solo or in decentralized mining pools. Monero’s low ...

Monero, the leading privacy-focused cryptocurrency, is facing one of the most serious security challenges in its history. Qubic, a project led by IOTA co-founder Sergey Ivancheglo, says it now ...

Update July 30, 2025, 8:25 am UTC: This article has been updated to Dan Dadybayo’s role as a researcher at Unstoppable Wallet. Privacy-focused Monero is facing what ...

Several solutions have been proposed to bolster Monero’s proof-of-work consensus mechanism to prevent 51% attacks on the network. Dash’s ChainLocks uses “randomly selected masternodes” to reach a ...

Qubic, a project led by former IOTA co-founder Sergey Ivancheglo, says it has secured more than 51% of Monero’s global hashrate, a milestone that, if true, gives it the ability to reorganize blocks, ...

The Monero development team has accelerated its efforts to implement the Full-Chain Membership Proof (FCMP) upgrade, spurred by a recent attempted 51% attack from the Qubic project. This incident has ...

Monero is a well-designed privacy coin with features that give it some important advantages over Bitcoin. These advantages include privacy, better fungibility, ASIC resistance, dynamic block size, a ...

Is it possible to mine Monero without investing in mining equipment worth thousands of dollars? And, if so, is the effort worthwhile? This article will attempt to answer those questions. But before ...

Android Monero-mining malware surfaced last week, pretending to be a legitimate Google Play update app, according to research from Trend Micro. But AndroidsOS_HiddenMiner isn't the only Monero-mining ...