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Title: wanacry road-blocked by monero mining botnet that was already in place. Post by: dinofelis on May 17, 2017, 03:27:41 PM Haha, love this:
http://thehackernews.com/2017/05/smb-exploit-cryptocurrency-mining.html Crypto is finally finding its way :) Title: Re: wanacry road-blocked by monero mining botnet that was already in place. Post by: ven_bug_trap on May 17, 2017, 03:37:56 PM This is funny, just goes to show that you can be more effective taking advantage of people's stupidity in a patient and stealthy way. Kinda off-topic, but does it bug anyone else when a supposedly security-related site doesn't have HTTPS? It just seems kinda ironic.
Title: Re: wanacry road-blocked by monero mining botnet that was already in place. Post by: aoluain on May 17, 2017, 03:55:19 PM now thats a good one, so we all potentially could have been
or still are mining Monero without knowing. and the WannaCry croud probably didnt know either and were themselves probably mining Monero without knowing [i hope] this is classic ;D Title: Re: wanacry road-blocked by monero mining botnet that was already in place. Post by: ven_bug_trap on May 17, 2017, 05:47:41 PM Quote now thats a good one, so we all potentially could have been or still are mining Monero without knowing. and the WannaCry croud probably didnt know either and were themselves probably mining Monero without knowing [i hope] this is classic ;D I believe it makes system performance sluggish, so people might have known something was up, but apart from that I don't think there were any other major indicators. |