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A poisoned version of MediaGet, an all-in-one BitTorrent client developed in Russia, was used to offload malicious cryptocurrency miners. According to research from Microsoft, the application helped to kick off the Dofoil campaign that targeted hundreds of thousands of computers. Mediaget says that the issue has been fully resolved at their end.
Source: https://torrentfreak.com/microsoft-poisoned-torrent-client-triggered-coin-miner-outbreak-180315/
"Our continued investigation on the Dofoil outbreak revealed that the March 6 campaign was a carefully planned attack with initial groundwork dating back to mid-February," the Windows Defender team said today in a new report.
Microsoft alleges hackers broke into MediaGet's infrastructure, and sometimes between February 12 and 19, attackers managed to replace the official MediaGet installer with one that also included a backdoor.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Monday March 26 2018, @06:55AM (7 children)
It's called ChromeOS [wikipedia.org].
https://www.theverge.com/2017/4/12/15269470/idc-gartner-chromebooks-pc-market-growth [theverge.com]
https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/27/as-chromebook-sales-soar-in-schools-apple-and-microsoft-fight-back/ [techcrunch.com]
New Chromebooks support Android apps, and there could be more convergence between the two if Google continues to pursue Fuchsia [wikipedia.org].
[SIG] 10/28/2017: Soylent Upgrade v14 [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 26 2018, @07:12AM (5 children)
Everything is done with the Chrome browser or extensions for it gotten through Google's own
prisonwalled garden.X Windows has been replaced with some hand-craft thing. The only way to do anything useful with ChromeOS is to disable security features and enable the Developer Mode, just so you can SSH into a real machine to get work done. Or, you can experiment with some Linux distribution that will require a sketchy firmware patch and, as always, have some horribly broken support in the long run.
We need open hardware.
We need systems that can be programmed in confidence from the ground up, without having to beg and plead our overlords for "support".
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Monday March 26 2018, @08:10AM (3 children)
And she uses her Android phone for audiobooks.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 26 2018, @08:41AM (2 children)
Nothing more.
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Monday March 26 2018, @10:24AM (1 child)
Would you use a butter knife to cut down a tree?
What's your take on using a chainsaw to spread Jam on your toast
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 26 2018, @01:43PM
That depends on how high I was.
That depends on how bad my munchies are.
Do you have any non-drug related questions?
(Score: 2) by darkfeline on Tuesday March 27 2018, @04:57AM
Chromium OS and Chromium are both open source. Google goes through great lengths to develop the open source versions. You can build Chromium OS and install it on any reasonably common and reasonably modern computer. Chromium OS is basically Gentoo with a heavily customized set of packages. A handful of key Chrome OS developers are/were Gentoo developers.
Basically, you're spouting shit.
I believe that was done for speed. A Chromebook boots to the graphical login screen in less than a second; you can't do that with a traditional Linux/X stack.
That's only for developers, who represent an insignificant percent of the population who need a "computer". Most people need an office suite (Google Docs, etc.), email, and web browsing for 90% of their needs, and some standalone apps for the remaining 10% (the 90-10 rule). Also, Chromium OS is getting surprisingly good Linux VM integration in the future, allowing you to run Linux X applications transparently in a sandboxed VM while still keeping the host OS secure, no developer mode needed.
How is this related to this topic? Shipping an OS is completely unrelated to shipping hardware.
Join the SDF Public Access UNIX System today!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 26 2018, @07:39AM
You Sherley mean if Google pursue fucks-ya. Which it will, rest assured.