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"hosting all sorts of badies, from phishing pages to vulnerability scanners, and from crypto-mining operations to malware repositories." Is crypto-mining now a
by saag4dinner 7y ago
"hosting all sorts of badies, from phishing pages to vulnerability scanners, and from crypto-mining operations to malware repositories."
Is crypto-mining now a bad thing or is this article leaving out some details that I'm missing?
- OrderlyTiamat 7y agoPerhaps a virus that uses the computers of unaware victims to crypto-mine. If you infect enough people, I guess you'd stand a chance. Not sure if targeting iot would be the best move for that, and the article seems to insinuate that this was mostly iot based malware, so I don't know.
- asymptotically2 7y agoPeople mine on systems that they do not own. Try leaving SSH open with weak credentials, or use any software with a recently disclosed RCE. It won't be long until somebody drops a Monero miner.
- vanderZwan 7y agoI mean, I've seen ad-block filters for scripts that try to crypto-mine via peoples browsers through ads on websites, so this is hardly surprising.
- hannob 7y agoIt absolutely is a bad thing. Unfortunately it's not illegal.