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Two Canadians indicted in US over hacks of universities used for crypto mining

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A US federal grand jury has indicted two Canadians for allegedly breaching multiple US university networks. The attackers are said to have used the compromised systems to mine cryptocurrency, which consumed the victims' compute resources. The article does not name the individuals or the intrusion vector.

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