Obfuscated Bitcoin Miner Propagates Through FTP Using Password Dictionary
released on 2016-06-17 @ 07:46:48 PM
Although bitcoin miners have been used by cybercriminals before as a way to monetize their malicious activities, this recent sample (MD5: 522f8ba8b2dec299cc64c0ccf5a68000) caught our attention because it is unusually heavy, persistent, and obfuscated. Fortinet detects this threat as W32/Miner. (3)