Canadian extradited to US over alleged hacking of schools in at least four states
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A Canadian national has been extradited to the United States over alleged compromises of educational institutions in at least four states. The Department of Justice says the activity dates to 2016 and involved unauthorised cryptomining on the victims' computers, and it has identified two suspects. The article gives no CVEs, tooling or indicators of compromise, so defenders should check for unexplained high CPU use and unknown mining processes on school and education networks.
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