New Monero mining malware infected 500K PCs by using 2 NSA exploits
From the post:
It looks like the craze of cryptocurrency mining is taking over the world by storm as every new day there is a new malware targeting unsuspecting users to use their computing power to mine cryptocurrency. Recently, the IT security researchers at Proofpoint have discovered a Monero mining malware that uses leaked NSA (National Security Agency) EternalBlue exploit to spread itself.
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The post also mentions use of the NSA exploit, EsteemAudit.
A fair number of leads and worth your time to read in detail.
I suspect most of the data science ethics crowd will down vote the use of NSA exploits (EternalBlue, EsteemAudit) for cyrptocurrency mining.
Here’s a somewhat harder data science ethics question:
Is it ethical to infect 500,000+ Windows computers belonging to a government for the purpose of obtaining internal documents?
Does your answer depend upon which government and what documents?
Governments don’t take your rights into consideration. Should you take their laws into consideration?