NSA leak fuels rise in hacking for crypto mining: report

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> From: the keyboard of geoff goodfellow <geoff () iconia com>
> Date: September 20, 2018 at 4:31:51 AM GMT+9
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> Subject: NSA leak fuels rise in hacking for crypto mining: report
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> Washington (AFP) - Illicit cryptocurrency mining has been surging over the past year, in part due to a leaked 
> software tool from the US National Security Agency, researchers said Wednesday.
>
> A report by the Cyber Threat Alliance, an association of cybersecurity firms and experts, said it detected a 459 
> percent increase in the past year of illicit crypto mining -- a technique used by hackers to steal the processing 
> power of computers to create cryptocurrency... 
>
> https://www.yahoo.com/news/nsa-leak-fuels-rise-hacking-crypto-mining-report-152231838.html
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