Cisco has discovered a new botnet for hidden mining Monero
Cisco Talos discovered a botnet that has been active for several months and infected more than 5,000 computers to secretly mine the confidential Monero cryptocurrency. In a report, cybersecurity analyst firm Cisco Talos, part of tech giant Cisco Systems, said it had discovered a botnet called Prometei that has been active for several months. A botnet can disable security controls, copy sensitive files, and disguise itself as other programs to set up hidden mining operations…
