Students Abuse Free Power for Crypto Mining; Criminals Abuse Students

In news that will surprise precisely nobody, students have realized that they can abuse college resources for mining cryptocurrency. Following this, criminals realized that they can abuse students’ love of pornography and illegal movie streaming to do the same. Well, Duh? I said it wasn’t going to surprise anyone, but the figures, published in Vectra’s Attacker Behaviour Industry Report and summarized in this blog post, might. According to the report, a staggering 60% of cryptocurrency Read More The post Students Abuse Free Power for Crypto Mining; Criminals Abuse Students appeared first on Bitcoinist.com.



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