Hardware/Network
Attackers Take Over WordPress, Joomla, JBoss Servers to Mine Monero
Reported by bleepingcomputer.com
Attacks aimed at delivering cryptocurrency mining tools on enterprise networks have gone up as much as six times, according to telemetry data collected by IBM’s X-Force team between January and August 2017.
A recent report by fellow cyber-security firm Kaspersky found that cryptocurrency mining malware also infected over 1.65 million machines running Kaspersky solutions in the first eight months of the year.
