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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: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 26 2018, @07:05AM
I use Linux, virtually exclusively, and I'll be the first to tell you that it's a total fucking mess.
I'm telling you that as someone who has spent time deep in the source code, and who thought 20 years ago that it would end up blossoming into something great.
There is no a suitable distribution for nothing. If Linux ever works on something, then it's because it's using binary blobs that will one day not be updated, and then you'll be stuck with some ancient junk, grinding and gnashing your teeth, and yelling at the clouds, wondering where your life went.