Date: Issue 85 - September 2018
Unfair Profits in Crypto Currency!
Cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), Monero (XMR) and Ripple (XRP) starting to gain more financial value on a global scale day by day because of the distributed structure of digital money/payment systems. Trillions of calculations are being executed for the generation of “Blockchain” content referred to as the technology enabling the formation of cryptocurrency units. This requires a significant amount of energy consumption in addition to high performance hardware. Thus, the recent “Crypto-jacking” attacks against cryptocurrencies imply the utilization of the aforesaid hardware, the control of which is seized through various means in crypto mining without the information or will of their owners.