Cryptocurrency Mining Malware Hosted in Amazon S3 Bucket

As Bitcoin’s price continues to soar beyond $4,000 USD per, cyber criminals are responding in kind by using techniques long reserved for adware, click-fraud and spying to now drop cryptocurrency miners onto compromised computers. The latest incident comes from a rash of drive-by downloads that are being used to install coin-mining malware called Zminer, according to researchers from Netskope.

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