Computers in a European Airport Found to be Infected with Crypto Mining Malware
Computers in a European Airport Found to be Infected with Crypto Mining Malware Researchers at Cyberbit disclosed that they have discovered a crypto mining malware that infected 50% of the workstations in one of the international airports in Europe despite the fact that these workstations were equipped with industry standard antivirus. This latest cyber incident at one of the international airports in Europe shows that antivirus solution isn’t enough to shield organizations from malicious software (malware). Malicious Activities According to the researchers at Cyberbit, the malware was detected based on the suspicious use of the following: PAExec tool and Reflective DLL Loading. PAExec PAExec is a redistributable version of Microsoft’s PSExec that enables a user to launch Windows programs on remote Windows computers without the need of installing first the…