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Thursday, June 16, 2016

Obfuscated Bitcoin Miner Propagates Through FTP Using Password Dictionary

Although bitcoin miners have been used by cybercriminals before as a way to monetize their malicious activities, this recent sample (MD5:522f8ba8b2dec299cc64c0ccf5a68000) caught our attention because it is unusually heavy, persistent, and obfuscated. Fortinet detects this threat as W32/Miner. (3)



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