Security News > 2018 > March > New Cryptocurrency Mining Malware Infected Over 500,000 PCs in Just Few Hours

2018-03-08 19:18
Two days ago, Microsoft encountered a rapidly spreading cryptocurrency-mining malware that infected almost 500,000 computers within just 12 hours and successfully blocked it to a large extent. Dubbed Dofoil, aka Smoke Loader, the malware was found dropping a cryptocurrency miner program as payload on infected Windows computers that mines Electroneum coins, yet another cryptocurrency, for
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