Interpol announced the completion of the operation to clean up routers in Southeast Asia infected with malware for hidden cryptocurrency mining.
For five months, SingaporeanA division of the International Criminal Police Organization, together with the cybersecurity company Trend Micro, was engaged in the restoration of home and corporate MikroTik routers.
During Operation Goldfish Alpha The team has cleaned more than 20 thousand affected devices, which is 78% of the total number of infected devices in the region.The implemented crypto jacking program used router processors and their operating system to mine Monero (XMR).
The daily income of hackers from this network is currentlythe time would be about $ 13 thousand, but before the cryptocurrency switched to the RandomX algorithm, this amount was less. Nevertheless, according to Interpol analysts, there are now more than 200 thousand active MikroTik routers in the world, so attackers can still potentially earn hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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