Canadian extradited to US over cryptomining hacks on university supercomputers
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A Canadian national has been extradited to the US after a federal grand jury indicted two Canadian men for hijacking university supercomputers to secretly mine Electroneum cryptocurrency. The case is a cryptojacking incident involving compromised academic computing resources.
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- Check high-performance computing and research systems for unexplained mining processes and sustained high CPU or GPU usage.
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