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Weeks Before WannaCry, Cryptocurrency Mining Botnet Was Using Windows SMB Exploit (The Hackers News)
A security researcher has just discovered a stealthy cryptocurrency-mining malware that was also using Windows SMB vulnerability at least two weeks before the outbreak of WannaCry ransomware...


A new botnet consisting of more than 15,000 compromised servers has been used to mine various cryptocurrencies, earning its master around $25,000 per month. Mining cryptocurrencies can be a costly...


Hackers are mining Zcash cryptocurrency surreptitiously on PCs infected with cleverly named programs such as system.exe, taskmngr.exe and svchost.exe.

Software “mining” the recently established Zcash (ZEC) cryptocurrency is being foisted upon unsuspecting users, Kaspersky Lab warns. The actual software is not illegal, and not technically malware...

If you have discovered cryptocurrency mining malware on your system, have removed it, and got compromised again without an idea about how it happened, it could be that the source of the infection...


