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As the whole world mourns the death of the basketball legend Kobe Bryant, on Twitter, Microsoft’s global network of security experts, Microsoft Security Intelligence, wrote that "as expected, cybercriminals are already profiting from the tragedy ”.
While the world mourns the loss of an NBA legend, cybercriminals are, as expected, taking advantage of the tragedy. We found a malicious HTML file posing as a Kobe Bryant wallpaper that contains a coin mining script. pic.twitter.com/w2JwPvqFy5
– Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) January 30, 2020
We found a malicious HTML file that looks like a Kobe Bryant background and contains a crypto mining script, ”said the multinational’s expert network.
A crypto-mining virus – or crypto-jacking – discreetly undermines Bitcoin or other digital parts, including Monero, using the computing power of third-party computers. It slows down and therefore wears out infected machines more quickly.
Early January, Interpol eradicated more than 15,000 malware of this type present on routers in Asia. According to the latest report from McAfee, malicious cryptocurrency mining advanced significantly in 2019.
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