How Hackers Hid a Money-Mining Botnet in Amazon’s Cloud

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? At the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas next month Ragan and Salazar […]

















from WIRED » Threat Level http://wrd.cm/1AargxT