A crypto currency thief hijacked traffic that was meant for large hosting companies including Amazon, Digital Ocean, OVH, and others earlier this year in a heist that earned him some $83,000 in profits in more than four months, according toDark Reading.
Researchers with Dell SecureWorks Counter Threat Unit said that some 51 networks were compromised from 19 internet service providers as the thief redirected crypto currency miners to his own mining pool and stole their profits – to the tune of $9,000 per day.
The crypto currency hijack also interrupted network traffic for other users in the netblocks he targeted, the researchers say, but the attacker was mainly interested in the miners.
