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Mining Malware Caught Targeting China

Janelle Fox

Summary: Another Monero mining bot that was targeting Chinese computers, according to TheNextWeb. One of Trend Micro’s security systems found the URL spreading the cryptocurrency mining botnet. It was determined that the bot had only targeted Chinese computers so far. This seems to have become a common occurrence in the cryptocurrency industry. These types of attacks ...

Another Monero mining bot that was targeting Chinese computers, according to TheNextWeb. One of Trend Micro’s security systems found the URL spreading the cryptocurrency mining botnet. It was determined that the bot had only targeted Chinese computers so far. This seems to have become a common occurrence in the cryptocurrency industry. These types of attacks have been announced on almost a weekly basis.

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