Re:Dutch police take down hornets' nest of DDoS botnets
by asymptotically2 on Thursday October 03, 2019 @03:56AM
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People mine on systems that they do not own. Try leaving SSH open with weak credentials, or use any software with a recently disclosed RCE. It won't be long until somebody drops a Monero miner.
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Re:Dutch police take down hornets' nest of DDoS botnets
by vanderZwan on Thursday October 03, 2019 @08:41AM
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I mean, I've seen ad-block filters for scripts that try to crypto-mine via peoples browsers through ads on websites, so this is hardly surprising.