Security researchers detect new variant of Monero mining exploit Tor2Mine
ambcrypto.comThe industry woke up today to the news of Bitmart exchange being exploited to the tune of nearly $200 million in stolen funds through Ethereum and Binance Smart Chain. With exploits becoming commoner and hackers coming up with ingenious ways to install malware, caution is absolutely necessary.
Worth noting, however, that mining campaigns are providing these hackers a low-risk way to earn digital cash by exploiting network vulnerabilities.
Earlier this week, security researchers at Sophos warned of the return of Tor2Mine. This is a miner variant that makes use of the Tor gateway to communicate with hacked servers. In fact, it can leverage whole networks of worker machines.
This type of cybercrime is known as crypto-jacking, an act where hackers
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