An Old Trick with a New Twist: Cryptomining Through Disguised URL Shorteners

An Old Trick with a New Twist: Cryptomining Through Disguised URL Shorteners

As we have previously discussed on this blog, surreptitious cryptomining continues to be a problem as new methods emerge to both evade and hasten the ease of mining at the expense of system administrators, website owners, and their visitors.

Another Way Hackers are Tricking Website Visitors into Stealth Cryptomining

The latest of these new techniques is actually more of a twist on the old method by disguising a malicious website through the  malicious URL shorteners.

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