Monero Mining Malware Attack Linked to Egyptian Telecom Giant

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Monero Mining Malware Attack Linked to Egyptian Telecom Giant

According to a new report, anonymous bodies situated at a telecommunication company that is linked to the Egyptian government are being speculated of using malwares to trick the Middle East website users into intelligently mining monero.

The University of Toronto published that the internet users from Syria and Turkey who tried to download the windows applications such as opera, Antivirus, C cleaner etc. were unexpectedly redirected to pernicious versions with malware

The report stated that they had realized a number of middleboxes on Turk’s Telkom network that were being used to swerve users who attempted to download certain genuine programs to other versions of those software’s that were bundled with the malwares.

The middleboxes were the main malwares that were used to swerve the users across a number of ISPs to affiliate ads and browser Cryptocurrency mining scripts

Being a major state-owned telecommunication company, Telecom Egypt hence the middleboxes at the point of conflict are related to the government’s surveillance in both Syria and Turkey and they include sandvine.

Sandvine however refuted the report findings telling CoinDesk that in relation to their preliminary view of the reports, some of the Citizen lab’s allegations might be technically not true and might have an intention of practically misleading

The company argued that it has never heard any direct or indirect any commercial and or any technological relationship with known malwares and that their company’s products did not and cannot infect malicious software’s

It admitted that their product had a swerving features, many types of technological products have included a HTTP for redirection as a commonly used technology.

However, besides denying the allegations the company said that it had instituted investigations into the matter because they believe that the company is deeply into managing an ethical development in technology

The objective of cryptocurrency-driven governmental spywares may be deemed as unwarranted.

Researchers who indulged with Tor Project pen Observance Network Interference also insinuated that they experienced alike malware problems. They also realized that TE Data, Egypt’s internet provider that controls a majority of Egyptian bandwidth enabled a possibility of attacks with both the malwares and adverts.

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