Google DoubleClick plants Bitcoin miners.

[DummyLoad]

any reports of compromised system(s)?

http://www.eweek.com/security/attackers-distribute-crypto-currency-miners-via-doubleclick-ad-network


--pete

[EL34]

First I have heard of it
Looks like google has already taken care of the issue?

[DummyLoad]

First I have heard of it
Looks like google has already taken care of the issue?

Yes, Google has resolved. I was just curious if you'd had any reports. We may have had some folks tagged by this.
--Pete

[EL34]

I was not entirely clear on how this thing works

It looks like the server does the mining, not your local computer?

[shooter]

not your local computer

not sure about the malware, but "mining" can happen at the user computer level.

[DummyLoad]

I was not entirely clear on how this thing works

It looks like the server does the mining, not your local computer?

exploit adds your PC to a botnet and it becomes a bitcoin miner.

--pete

[DummyLoad]

if you have the ability to look at your outbound traffic & you see IP flows to random IP addresses with destination protocol ports: 7777 5555 4444 3337 8220, you've been hacked.


--pete