Cryptocurrency Mining Malware - Urgent Anti-biotic needed
Once upon a time, Mining was very profitable business. Even an individual with a laptop can mine Cryptocurrency. Time has changed now, It is very difficult mine with your CPU, Even mining bytecoin with laptop is not profitable at all.
But the Digital thieves are one step ahead of everybody. Always try to do something bad with his digital knowledge. Millions of PC's are infected with malware and steal your computing power. Guess what, What they will do with this computing power, They will sell it for Cryptocurrency mining purposes.
The operation has been going on for over four months, and may have targeted around 15 million machines or more -
security firm Palo Alto Networks
Malware is spread across millions of PCs through .exe files. So be careful about EXE files. Double check you are downloading EXE files from authentic sources. Otherwise, Your computer power is gone and will use it for cryptocurrency mining.
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