{"id":26516,"date":"2020-07-28T09:54:51","date_gmt":"2020-07-28T06:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=26516"},"modified":"2025-08-26T14:52:32","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T11:52:32","slug":"experts-identify-a-new-mining-related-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/experts-identify-a-new-mining-related-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"Experts identify a new mining-related scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Qrator Labs specialists have uncovered a new scheme on fraudulent websites \u2014 attackers promise earnings from mining cryptocurrencies through users&#8217; devices. This was reported by Kommersant.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Users are offered up to 20,000 rubles per hour for renting out idle computing power of their computers. To receive the money, they must pay for &#8216;verification&#8217;. Payouts allegedly can be made starting from 10,000 rubles.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Qrator Labs noted that so far the attackers are only deducting 400 rubles for passing verification. At the same time, they have access to users&#8217; bank card data, and it is possible that funds could be withdrawn from their accounts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The idea is based on &#8216;classic mechanisms for extracting money from citizens&#8217;, said Andrey Arsentyev, head of analytics and special projects at InfoWatch.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Over the first six months of 2020 alone, Kaspersky Lab identified more than 23,000 scam resources on Runet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Experts from Kaspersky Lab warned of intensified hacking attacks by the Lazarus group against Russian users.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 the full feed of news, <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news and polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Qrator Labs specialists uncovered a new scheme on fraudulent websites \u2014 attackers promise earnings from mining cryptocurrencies through users&#8217; devices. This was reported by Kommersant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1137],"class_list":["post-26516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cryptocurrency-mining"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"9","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26517,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26516\/revisions\/26517"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}