How Hackers Hid a Money-Mining Botnet in Amazon's Cloud

Posted by bob on Jul 25, 2014 3:31 AM EDT
Wired; By Andy Greenberg 		Mail this story
Print this story

Hackers have long used malware to enslave armies of unwitting PCs, but security researchers Rob Ragan and Oscar Salazar had a different thought: Why steal computing power from innocent victims when there's so much free processing power out there for the taking?

Full Story

  Nav
» Read more about: Story Type: News Story, Security; Groups: Cloud, Python

« Return to the newswire homepage

This topic does not have any threads posted yet!

You cannot post until you login.