Crypto Mining

Malicious crypto miners attack Android while remaining undetected by Google's security scanners

With the processes running in the background on Android applications, Trend Micro has been able to trace the code back to two crypto miners.

The Pirate Bay miner: Here's how to keep cryptocurrency miners away from using your CPU processing power

The Pirate Bay in their short blog post mentions that the JavaScript cryptocurrency mine used can be kept away using a normal ad-blocker.