LXer: How Hackers Hid a Money-Mining Botnet in Amazon's Cloud
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LXer: How Hackers Hid a Money-Mining Botnet in Amazon's Cloud
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Hackers have long used malware to enslave armies of unwitting PCs, but security researchers Rob Ragan and Oscar Salazar had a different thought: Why steal computing power from innocent victims when there's so much free processing power out there for the taking?
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