Re:“An on-page advert was mining bitcoin in my browser”
by ringaroundthetx on Tuesday August 29, 2017 @12:47PM
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It does happen commonly.
There was an entire mining botnet operating for weeks using the same CIA exploit that the Wannacry attackers used. It made a lot more than Wannacry did.
Wannacry's ameteurish and public ways led to patches that both exposed the existence of and killed the botnet.
There was an entire mining botnet operating for weeks using the same CIA exploit that the Wannacry attackers used. It made a lot more than Wannacry did.
Wannacry's ameteurish and public ways led to patches that both exposed the existence of and killed the botnet.