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Hackers Make 3 Million By Mining Monero - mothered - 02-23-2018

Greetings all,

This Is a pretty Impressive exploit, particularly In the way It was performed. I'm sure many of you will find It of Interest.

Quote:Hackers exploiting Jenkins servers made $3 million in one of the biggest malicious cryptocurrency mining operations ever. If you run a Jenkins server, you might want to make sure it is fully patched, since researchers found “one of the biggest malicious mining operations ever discovered.” The cyber crooks have already made more than $3 million by installing malware that mines for Monero on vulnerable Windows machines. And now they are honing in on vulnerable, yet powerful, Jenkins servers.

Source.