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Smominru Botnet Indiscriminately Hacked Over 90,000 Computers Just Last Month

Smominru, an infamous cryptocurrency-mining and credential-stealing botnet, has become one of the rapidly spreading computer viruses that is now infecting over 90,000 machines each month around the world. The botnet is infecting vulnerable machines at a rate of 4,700 machines per day with several thousands of infections detected in countries including China, Taiwan, Russia, Brazil, Brazil and the U.S. The latest variant of the worm downloads and runs at least 20 distinct malicious scripts and binary payloads.

Source: https://thehackernews.com/2019/09/smominru-botnet.html

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