200,000 routers in Brazil were secretly hijacked to mine cryptocurrency

200,000 routers in Brazil were secretly hijacked to mine cryptocurrency
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2018-8-3 16:58

Brazil has been hit by an elaborate cryptocurrency mining attack that infected hundreds of thousands of routers across the country. The attack, which is still ongoing, affects MikroTik routers specifically.

In this instance, over 200,000 machines have been affected, creating a massive XMR-mining botnet across Brazil. The perpetrators were able to infect devices with malicious code, surreptitiously running CoinHive in the background. For those unfamiliar, CoinHive is a popular Monero mining script which has become widely used to pool processing power to mine cryptocurrency – often for charity, but unfortunately, not this time. This kind of attack is known as…

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