The Department of Justice said it identified two suspects in a case that dates back to 2016 and involved illicit cryptomining on the computers of U.S. educational institutions.

Two Canadian men face federal prosecution for hacking US university supercomputers to secretly mine cryptocurrency for years.

Ryan Roach and his alleged co-conspirator, Mathiew Stubbings, are accused of compromising U.S. universities’ computers and taking over processing power to mine for cryptocurrency.

A Global Threat Landscape Expanding Across Multiple Platforms Kaspersky's third-quarter 2026 telemetry report highlights the continued scale and diversity of cyber threats worldwide. The latest findings record 311 million web attacks, alongside significant targeting of users by ransomware and cryptocurrency-mining malware. The report also examines threats affecting macOS and Internet of Things (IoT) devices, while identifying regional differences in cyberattack activity.

The Department of Justice said it identified two suspects in a case that dates back to 2016 and involved illicit cryptomining on the computers of U.S. educational institutions.

Buying and operating an ASIC miner remains a substantial barrier to solo Bitcoin mining. LuqEE offers another approach: time-based access to professionally hosted mining hardware for Bitcoin (BTC) and Bitcoin Cash (BCH), without the need to purchase or maintain a mining rig. The model has already produced a public record of block discoveries. On October […]

A federal grand jury indicted two Canadian men for hijacking university supercomputers to secretly mine Electroneum cryptocurrency. The post Canadian Extradited to US Over Cryptomining Hacks on University Supercomputers appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Core Scientific reported $215.4 million in third-quarter colocation revenue, nearly 60% above the prior quarter, while billing 485 MW of capacity. Its…

Bitcoin’s mining difficulty has now spent 374 days below its October 2025 all-time high, the longest such stretch in the network’s history, beating a record set after the 2011 crash. A Record Nobody Wanted Economist and author Saifedean Ammous flagged the milestone on Saturday, writing that Bitcoin difficulty has been below its all-time high for […]

TeraWulf's November 6 earnings release shows $63 million in third-quarter high-performance-computing lease revenue, around 83% of its $76.2 million total.…

BitFuFu produced 137 BTC in October, down from 167 in September, while managed hashrate stayed close to 19.5 EH/s. The miner attributed the decline partly to…

IREN reported $200 million in quarterly AI Cloud revenue, up from $71 million the previous quarter, while Bitcoin mining revenue fell from $67 million to $28…

The Department of Justice said it identified two suspects in a case that dates back to 2016 and involved illicit cryptomining on the computers of U.S. educational institutions.

The installed capacity of data centres and crypto mining facilities on Russia's grid rose 24.4% in nine months to 5.4GW, on course to match 2025's one-third expansion.