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posted by Fnord666 on Sunday January 07 2018, @04:11PM   Printer-friendly
from the another-reason-for-using-VPNs dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

Thanks to the ridiculous valuation of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, cryptomining code has become a common mechanism for converting authorized and stolen computing cycles into potential cash.

Antivirus and ad-blocker makers have responded by trying to halt crafty coin-crafting code from hijacking CPU time, particularly in browsers.

For those interested in violating computer laws – please, don't – and those interested in computer security research projects, a developer named Arnau, based in Spain, has published a proof-of-concept walkthrough for hacking public Wi-Fi networks to inject crypto-mining code in connected browsing sessions.

[...] As Arnau explained, the attack – demonstrated on a VirtualBox set up rather than in the wild – can be automated. The published version doesn't work with requests for HTTPS webpages, though the addition of sslstrip could solve that.

The code, mostly Python, is available on GitHub. ®


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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by realDonaldTrump on Sunday January 07 2018, @10:26PM

    by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Sunday January 07 2018, @10:26PM (#619306) Homepage Journal

    The Dictaphone was so easy. You talked into the machine, you said your message. And sent the belt -- or the tape -- to the typing pool. It wasn't Hi-Fi, it wasn't Wi-Fi, it didn't sound great. But your message got out. And there were always plenty of good looking girls in the typing pool.

    Let me tell you, cyber has turned us all into an INCOMPETENT typing pool. And it's bringing crime, a lot of crime. So many hacks, who hasn't been hacked? I love getting my message out to hundreds of millions of people -- I have more followers than the Pope -- but sometimes I want to say, "give me a goddamned Dictaphone and a pretty typist."

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