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With the booming value of cryptocurrency, many hackers and nefarious actors are rolling out schemes to unwittingly trick regular web users into mining for them. The latest scheme to dupe people into mining cryptocurrency is taking advantage of Facebook Messenger via some slick malware. The malware being distributed via Messenger is mining Monero, an alternative to the wildly valuable and volatile Bitcoin. Security researchers from Trend Micro are calling the malware Digmine and are saying that it could also help perpetrators to take over a Facebook account. The Digmine malware is disguised to look like a video file being shared over messenger. The only way the malware can spread is...
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