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Windows, Linux Kodi Users Infected With Cryptomining Malware (zdnet.com) 58

An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: Users of Kodi, a popular media player and platform designed for TVs and online streaming, have been the targets of a malware campaign, ZDNet has learned from cyber-security firm ESET. According to a report that will be published later today and shared with ZDNet in advance, the company's malware analysts have uncovered that at least three popular repositories of Kodi add-ons have been infected and helped spread a malware strain that secretly mined cryptocurrency on users' computers.

ESET researchers say they found malicious code hidden in some of the add-ons found on three add-on repositories known as Bubbles, Gaia, and XvBMC, all offline at the time of writing, after receiving copyright infringement complaints. Researchers said that some of the add-ons found on these repositories would contain malicious code that triggered the download of a second Kodi add-on, which, in turn, would contain code to fingerprint the user's OS and later install a cryptocurrency miner. While Kodi can run on various platforms, ESET says that the operators of this illicit cryptocurrency mining operation only delivered a miner for Windows and Linux users.
The crooks reportedly mined for Monero, infecting over 4,700 victims and generating over 62 Monero coins, worth today nearly $7,000.
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Windows, Linux Kodi Users Infected With Cryptomining Malware

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  • by Anonymous Coward

    Oh Noes, in maybe a few years, my raspberry pi will have mined a coin. how will I pay for the 0.25 in electricity?

  • The crooks reportedly mined for Monero, infecting over 4,700 victims and generating over 62 Monero coins, worth today nearly $7,000.

    The word "today" is a little too broad, is it not?

    How about this:

    The crooks reportedly mined for Monero, infecting over 4,700 victims and generating over 62 Monero coins, with a viscous cash equivalency of nearly $7,000, when I checked right after lunch.

  • software must be only open source. No binary, anywhere. I don't care how you bootstrap the process. This has gone too far.

    I do not know what my computer is doing anymore. "Oh you have to trust someone". Well, I can't.

    Fuck modern software. Fuck it up its bloated ass.

    turbo C compiler was a 100 kilobyte exe.

    whatsapp for windows, a fucking messaging app, is 50+ MB

    what the hell?!

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