19 December 2019 by Océane
Although the agents of the Russian security were able to thwart the most dangerous of blasting and illegal in an organization, in the month of February of the year 2018, the Russian State has carried on his investigations in detecting this time an attack of the same nature and of the same size.
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A threat to any state organization
Two individuals are currently subject to prosecution for having allegedly infected the computers of the organizations, Status with a program that is undermining illegally crypto-currencies via a Web browser.
Although the criminals in question are not yet identified, it has been revealed that one of the suspects is a resident of the city of Kurgan. His acts of malice have resulted in a vast network of zombies (software) designed to infect computers in various regions of the country.
The second suspect would secretly conducted mining operations on the material from the service, public water JSC Rostov Vodokanal.
An untenable situation for Russia
Tormented by the upsurge of these crimes, Nikolay Murashov, deputy director of the Centre of the Russian national coordination of computer problems, has asked the organisations to implement measures to ensure cyber security is adequate, while declaring at a press conference :
“The crypto-jacking has the potential to cause harm to business operations as well as adversely affect the performance of the business.”
In fact, a computer can be operated up to 80% of its power for mining virtual currencies, and this, without the knowledge of the owner of the machine.
It should be remembered that Russia is about to adopt a law granting the power to confiscate assets in crypto-currencies in the course of judicial proceedings.
In addition, the central bank, the financial regulator, as well as the Russian ministry of Finance agree to prohibit strictly the use of crypto-currencies for payments of goods and services.
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