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

A US federal grand jury has indicted two Canadian nationals accused of compromising multiple US university systems and repurposing them for cryptocurrency mining. The article gives no CVE identifiers, affected software versions, initial access method or dates. Defenders should review university and other academic networks for unauthorised mining workloads and unexplained compute spikes, and check for persistence and credential misuse.

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