[DUMBGRUNT]

Not to bash MS, but curious about the income stream from back door cryptocurrency mining.

I found this: One Hacker Can Make $100M A Year With Evil Cryptocurrency Miners https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2018/01/31/100-million-opportunity-for-criminal-monero-cryptocurrency-miners/#186993914684

Talk about a honeypot! Surprising anything with a CPU still functions?

[wildbill]

What is a crypto miner? Stealing coins by an app”

[Swordmaker]

Ping for your Windows list. . .

[Openurmind]

“These scans don’t include systems inside private networks, behind firewalls.”

And that is the problem. There could be 90% of average non-techy users infected with this and never know. If you are infected the first sign will be an unusually excessive amount of resources being used compared to what is truly needed for what you are doing on it.

They highjack your machine’s resources as added remote computing power to do the mining. It takes a LOT of resources to mine digital currency. And now that Bitcoin is getting closer to the end of availability, it takes even more and more computing power to mine each coin.

[McGruff]

the hackers appear to search for Windows systems with RDP ports left exposed on the internet,