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New Database Botnet Leveraged for Bitcoin Mining

New Database Botnet Leveraged for Bitcoin Mining

January 4, 2018

An organized group of cybercriminals is currently targeting database services in a new botnet build-up that’s being leveraged for cryptocurrency mining, among other more traditional botnet attack patterns.

Discovered by researchers with GuardiCore Labs, the so-called Hex-Men attacks have been slowly evolving since March and remain ongoing.

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