How Hacked Widgets Help Criminals Mine Monero

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Covert cryptocurrency mining is shaping up to be the new mainstay of cybercrime. Crooks hack servers, personal computers, and mobile devices and take advantage of the infected hosts’ CPU or GPU to generate virtual coins without victims’ awareness. Even botnets consisting of numerous zombie machines are now used to perpetrate illegal mining activity on a … Continued

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