Swati Khandelwal Technical Writer, Security Blogger and IT Analyst. She is a Technology Enthusiast with a keen eye on the Cyberspace and other tech related developments. Link: https://thehackernews.com/2017/05/cryptocurrency-mining-botnet.html A new botnet consisting of more than 15,000 compromised servers has been used to mine various cryptocurrencies, earning its master around $25,000 per month. Mining cryptocurrencies can
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[...]January 14, 2016 So the Fortinet SSH Backdoor, apparently it’s just a management authentication issue. Sorry, what’s that? It looks like a passphrase based admin level access login via SSH to me personally. Which is scary. They are adamantly shouting from rooftops that it was not planted by a 3rd party (NSA? Like Juniper..)
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