Egypt is secretly using citizens computers to mine cryptocurrency I bet it's Manero according to a new report by security researchers at the University of Toronto the Egyptian government or its affiliated institutions have hijacked the connections of local Internet users to secretly mined crypto currencies and mass oh no this is a bad idea guys
The evidence of this kind of intrusion by a nation-state is the stuff of legends the researchers say because this the techniques are particularly difficult to detect guys this is like some 1984 stuff with cryptocurrency involved I mean you're mining your citizens computers for crypto yo I mean that is worth it université citizen researchers identified a scheme that they call ad hos which secretly redirects Egyptian Internet users web traffic to malware that uses their computer to mine the crypto we knew it was gonna mine monero guys cryptocurrency or display ads ad hos relies on hardware installed on Telecom Egypt networks it is used in two different ways the researchers discovered in spray mode spray mode Buckshot mode any website that affected users tried to access would redirect their web browsers to either an advertising network or a cryptocurrency malware called coin
A scan in January showed that 95% of the observed devices with more than 5,700 devices were affected by AD hose the report did not give the total number of affected users the spray mode is used sparingly the researchers said the alternative is the trickle mode or the yes I'm not going to say it the trickle mode which redirects web traffic only when users can visit certain websites these include Coptic Pope org formerly a religious website and Babylon XCOM a porn site
The researchers found out about the trickle mode is in continuous running mode if it's continually trickling maybe it's more like a spray the hardware used to implement add hose also serves as a censorship tool it blocks access to news agencies such as Al Jazeera and NGOs such as Human Rights Watch gets thicker guys citizens lab found similar systems in Turkey and Syria although instead of crypto mining our ads users were served with spyware when they believed that they were installing legitimate antivirus programs and we and we wonder if the government's are spying on us it's not a question you shouldn't wonder it's happening obviously the manufacturer of the intrusive hardware is a Canadian company called Stanvine which merged last year with a company called Procera networks
The researcher said Stanvine described the report as false misleading and wrong when they were informed of their research results maybe San vine does even know that they're serving people up with mony robots guys this is a problem this is a big problem so in terms of the whole meta game of cryptocurrency it is important that you stay frosty with your internet browsing behaviors and habits so that this stuff doesn't happen I mean if you're being safe it shouldn't happened but then again man I tell you guys we need to keep our eyes wide open my friends as wide as they can be for Asian to people like me oh well you don't like that comment guys don't eat it go eat a root sack thanks for joining us the descriptors piece fit guys let me know your thoughts on Egypt mining up mowin arrow hey let me know in the comment section below and and smash the like button a for Bitcoin in more narrow let's smash the like button for more narrow guys it is the number one privacy coin on the planet
