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posted by chromas on Monday March 26 2018, @06:22AM   Printer-friendly
from the miner-outbreak-of-crypto-cents dept.

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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.


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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Monday March 26 2018, @08:01AM

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Monday March 26 2018, @08:01AM (#658285) Homepage Journal

    .. then blackhole that malware server's domain with their hosts file.

    Some guy on the green site mentioned it. He said their discussions were just like recommending what salve to apply when you're on fire.

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    Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
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