Canadian man extradited to US over alleged university network cryptomining spree
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Ryan James Roach was extradited from Canada on 28 October and arraigned in the US District Court for the Western District of New York over alleged intrusions into at least four universities between mid 2016 and late 2019. Co-defendant Mathiew James Stubbings is still being sought, and both were indicted in April 2022. The pair allegedly used rented virtual private servers, rootkits and stolen credentials to deploy cryptomining software, with one supercomputer's capacity diverted from its owner.
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What to do
- Check high-performance computing and university systems for unexplained cryptomining processes and rootkits.
- Reset credentials on systems that may have been compromised and enforce unique passwords.
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