Security News > 2018 > June > Traffic manipulation and cryptocurrency mining campaign compromised 40,000+ machines

Unknown attackers have compromised 40,000+ servers, networking and IoT devices around the world and are using them to mine Monero and redirect traffic to websites hosting tech support scams, malicious browser extensions, and so on. The campaign, dubbed Operation Prowli by the Guardicore Labs team, spreads malware and malicious code to servers, websites and devices after compromising them via exploits, password brute-forcing and by taking advantage of weak configurations. Operation Prowli Two specific things grabbed … More → The post Traffic manipulation and cryptocurrency mining campaign compromised 40,000+ machines appeared first on Help Net Security.

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