Varonis Security Research recently discovered a new strain of mining malware, able to disguise the mining for Monero (XMR) and similar CryptoNote assets on consumer electronics or networks. The virus received the moniker Norman, and apparently infected an entire company network.
“We found a large-scale infection of cryptominers; almost every server and workstation in the company was infected,” shared Varonis.
The infection spread to almost all devices within the company over the course of a year. The Norman malware also showed a new...