Henyang city, Hunan province, in south-central China, the police forces arrested 15 people suspected of stealing electricity from a local coffee house to minar cryptocurrencies. From 2017 the local police had been looking for, which they believed to be a gang of thieves of electricity, which is devoted to implant viruses of mining on the computers of internet cafes. It is estimated that the digital coins that they stole were sold by more than one hundred million yuan (more than us $ 20 million). In addition, it is believed that approximately 9,000 administrators of the computers in these local were bribed by the criminals for them to stop implanting the virus miner. After several investigations, the police received a tip that showed that many internet cafes local were controlled unlawfully remotely to the mining cryptographic. Many of the computers in these establishments functioned so slowly that some even burned the hardware. Luedo to confirm the tracks, the authorities analyzed the data and extracted the illegal procedures and implanted in the computers. The preliminary investigation discovered that the developer of the program that was infecting computers, Trojan Horse, was a company of technology of network in Zhengzhou, the chief of which was called Zhang. Apparently, this platform should only provide advertising and business for value added, but in reality are engaged in the business of mining cryptographic. Zhang bribed the managers of the internet cafés under the pretext of getting in touch with the companies, asking them to implement the program of “mining” in the computer of their premises while maintaining their systems, all this with the goal of being able to control it remotely. These past two years, Zhang has managed to have at your disposal more than 9,000 administrators of internet cafés throughout the country to act as agents out of line. If that weren’t enough, the results of your strategy will have been given an average monthly commission of 20 billion yuan, which are about 2.803.200 millions of dollars. Now the 15 suspected of collaborating with Zhang were arrested, but the police continue with their investigations. Steal electricity to mine digital coins has become a popular activity in China; other cases such as the installation of farms is unlawful or the arrest for older people to undermine in these circumstances have already been carried out and it is believed, of repeated similar situations, these will get similar results. The following two tabs change content below. I am a student of International Studies, interested in new technologies and their impact on the world. A true believer that tenacity is the foundation of success.
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