Canadian extradited to US over cryptomining hacks on university supercomputers
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A Canadian man has been sent to the United States to face charges. He is accused of secretly taking over university supercomputers to make a cryptocurrency called Electroneum. A federal grand jury indicted two Canadian men over the scheme.
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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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