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The gap is being abused for malicious cryptocurrency mining.” “If left unremedied and successfully exploited, this vulnerability could be used for multiple and more malicious attacks, such as a complete domain takeover of the infrastructure and the deployment information stealers, remote access trojans (RATs), and ransomware.”
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million) worth of cryptocurrencies via mining activities. million) in cryptocurrencies.” million) in cryptocurrencies.” In cryptojacking scheme, threat actors gain unauthorized access to a cloud environment and abuse its computational power to mine cryptocurrencies.
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