Hackers exploit Jenkins servers, make $3 million by mining Monero

Cyber crooks have already made more than $3 million by installing malware that mines for Monero on vulnerable Windows machines. They are now honing in on vulnerable, yet powerful, Jenkins servers. Over the past 18 months, the hackers have accumulated 10,800 Monero, worth $3,436,776. The attackers are leveraging CVE-2017-1000353, a flaw disclosed in a Jenkins security advisory issued in April 2017. The miner was downloaded from an IP address in China assigned to the organization “Huaian E-Government Information Center””]

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