Tag: mevade
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Despite the profitability of ransomware there is a good reason why mining malware is thriving
When, a few years ago, a friend and I were analysing a rather large botnet and we saw some network traffic indicating that it was engaged in Bitcoin mining, we felt rather disappointed: using malware to mine for cryptocurrencies is about as basic as it gets. It is the digital equivalent of breaking into someone’s house,…
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Despite the profitability of ransomware there is a good reason why mining malware is thriving
When, a few years ago, a friend and I were analysing a rather large botnet and we saw some network traffic indicating that it was engaged in Bitcoin mining, we felt rather disappointed: using malware to mine for cryptocurrencies is about as basic as it gets. It is the digital equivalent of breaking into someone’s house,…
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Updated botnet likely cause of surge in Tor traffic
New Tor version should help the network deal with increased traffic. Sometimes a picture says more than a thousand words: The graph shows the daily number of users of the Tor anonymity network over the past three years. As both the network and concerns over anonymity have grown, the usage has shown a slow but…