[ad_1] The encryption epidemic continues this week with the news that 415,000 routers have been infected with cryptographic malware. The targeted routers were quietly diverted to my cryptocurrency without warning users. The attack was identified by security researcher VriesHD and the Bad Packets Report team, who reported the problem from …
Read More »MikroTik routers have been enslaved in Coinhive's massive cryptography campaign
[ad_1] A massive cryptographic campaign has hit Brazil through the slavery of MikroTik routers and network devices. According to Trustwave researcher Simon Kenin, a spike in Coinhive activity was detected on July 31 indicating that an operation of extraction of malicious cryptocurrency was In a post on blog, the researcher …
Read More »Cryptocurrency malware infects over 200,000 Mikrotik routers
[ad_2][ad_1] A "cryptojacking" campaign involved over 200,000 routers produced by Mikrotik, the Latvian networking company. An exploited one-month vulnerability Security researchers recently mapped a series of cryptographic attacks, which initially attacked large numbers of users in Brazil to create a growing mining botnet by infecting devices compromised with malware . …
Read More »MikroTik routers grab their picks, descend into crypt mines • The register
[ad_2][ad_1] Researchers have found thousands of MikroTik network routers in Brazil serving CoinHive code for coin encryption. Trustwave researcher Simon Kenin said this week that one or more attackers exploited a known vulnerability in Mikrotik's corporate routers to inject code-based error pages that used visitors' machines to extract digital dosh …
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