Botnet for mining Monero has infected more than half a million servers



The botnet uses a Windows exploit called Eternal Blue, was developed by national security Agency USA, which was merged hacker group Shadow Brokers in the past year. Eternal Blue was previously used in the attack WannaCry along with another exploit NSA — Double Pulsar.





ZDNet notes that Windows servers have become major victims of a botnet, are the perfect hosts: they are always included and their computational power is higher in comparison with personal computers. Most of the affected cars are located in Russia, India and Taiwan, although the attack spans the globe.







