Thousands of infected FTP servers net attackers $88k in cryptocurrency

Targets foot hardware and electricity costs of mining Monero coins. Attackers are draining the CPU and power resources of thousands file transfer protocol servers by infecting them with malware that surreptitiously mints the relatively new crypto currency called Monero, researchers said. A notable percentage of the 3,000 or so infected servers are powered by Seagate Central, […]