In China, a gang of fifteen men were arrested for their involvement in the illegal bitcoin (BTC) and the crypto-mining operation.
The crooks to have coffee shops used to be around 100 million yuan (nearly $14 million in cryptovaluta to mine.
How did that come about? The band has more than nine thousand (!) operators of internet cafes, been to the surgery to be able to run it.
Simply infecteerden their computers with a Trojan horse, which is the CPU of the computer used for bitcoin (BTC) to mine.
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According to the Chinese media, CCTV has received as a local security company in the province of Henan at the end of 2018, with a tip: in the configuration of the local pubs had been hacked in order to cryptovaluta to mine.
The agency investigated and it was found out that a lot of the local coffee shops is contaminated with this malware. One of the computers in the internet cafes appeared at a distance, so be prepared.
The authorities were also able to find out the company that the malware had been developed. This company has also proved to be in crypto mining, so the link went down.
The $3 million in bribes
The founder of this company “Before” in the period from July 2017 to July 2019 at the latest, a group of no less than nine thousand system administrators are facing.
He was paid monthly to the manager a commission for the facilitation of this massive fraud.
Finally, Zhang, in a two-year period around a million yuan ($ 2,79 million) of commissions paid. The total revenue derived from the mining fraud is found, a $14 million to to to to.
There are now 15 people involved were arrested, and the omkopingsgelden account.
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