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Powerful Malware Disguised as Crypto Miner Infects 1M+ Windows, Linux PCs (www.pcmag.com)
submitted 1 year ago by Salamendacious to c/technology
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Antivirus provider Kaspersky uncovers a sophisticated piece of 'StripedFly' malware camouflaged as a cryptocurrency miner that's been targeting PCs for more than five years.

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[–] CriticalMiss 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I won’t argue about the legitimacy of crypto simply because I don’t care enough but you have to be fucking stupid to run non-FOSS crypto miners and instead go with something proprietary like this and then be surprised it fucks up your shit.

[–] Salamendacious 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is there a difference between FLOSS & FOSS? Besides the word libre?

[–] CriticalMiss 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Libre is Spanish for free, so I guess not.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

FLOSS & FOSS

To emphasize that “free software” refers to freedom and not to price, we sometimes write or say “free (libre) software,” adding the French or Spanish word that means free in the sense of freedom. In some contexts, it works to use just “libre software.”

From https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/floss-and-foss.en.html

They also say:

We in the free software movement don't use either of these terms, because we don't want to be neutral on the political question. We stand for freedom, and we show it every time—by saying “free” and “libre”—or “free (libre).”

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

I don’t care enough but you have to be fucking stupid to run ~~non-FOSS~~ crypto miners

Fixed that for you.