Russia‘s National Coordination Center for computer incidents (NKTsKI) solves a curious case
Two government officers created a computer network for currency mining. Yet, it’s not first such a case.
TASS agency informed about a case of two government officers who used business computers for crypto-currency mining. They created a network connecting different parts of the country. They mined through websites displaying and that was also the case how Rostovvodokanal company was attacked. Once the website was loaded, some crypto-currency was gained.
According to Nikolai Murashov, National Coordination Center for computer incidents, it’s essential that not only government offices pay attention to their networks. “Up to 80 % of free capacity of every computer may be misused for crypto-currency mining. User of each device many not even know about it,“ he said to TASS.
Nevertheless, it was neither first nor last such a case. In October, there were three nuclear scientists illegally mined bitcoin in laboratory based in Sarov, where former Soviet Union produced its first nuclear bombs. According to Government of the Russian Federation illegal crypto-currency mining is quite widespread. Russia estimated that between 20 – 30 % of computer in the country are infected with crypto-currency mining virus.
