New botnet infects cryptocurrency mining computers: replaces wallet address

in #newsflash7 years ago

This said in a report published on Wednesday by researchers of China based Netlab 360. A version of Satori, which will be released on January 8, takes advantage of one or more weaknesses in Open Source Claymore Miner, which secretly transmits dedicated computers for the mining of digital coins. This is crashing the botnets cryptocurrency party with the new version.

These computer masters have recently used to deposit the currency with an address controlled by an attacker. After getting control of this coin-mining software, the malware replaces the wallet address. Since then all the coins have been generated on the attacker, and the owners take the time to inspect their software configuration and manually inspect these malware families, where the router, security in the quarrels Cameras and other Internet-connected devices.

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