Playing Around

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bullets rained down from All Angles , but Abdelrhman Badr remained calm.

Suddenly the enemy broke in through a window. Abdelrhman swung round to face The Soldier , to save his team. He lined up, pressed his sights for a kill shot and the shutter button, but his screen was black.

His computer had been driving, silently and suddenly shut itself down Without Warning .

Abdelrhman was confused. The Game he played, never had any problems.

Abdelrhman Badr burned his Finger on the dangerous overheated computer

He stooped and looked in his computer, he likes to open, and on display in his room.

Instinctively, he touched one of the components, swore and withdrew his hand. The video card was so hot it had burned his fingers.

The 18-year-old from Sheffield had not realized it yet, but this small injury was caused by crypto-support.

the Crypto support is the unauthorized and illegal use of someone's computer to collect currencies Bitcoin and other crypto.

Legitimate crypto-currency miners use powerful Computer to capture the digital money

There are an estimated More Than 47 million crypto-currency users around The World , although it is difficult, to be sure, because of your anonymity. To collect users with virtual coins, which you through a complex process called "mining", which puts the Computer through a series of mathematical problems.

In a crypto-jacking operation, Hackers mislead victims to Download a malicious file that secretly forces your Computer to me for the money and send it Back To The Criminals , who can spend it on crypto-currency market places or you bend it in the mainstream cash.

Crypto-jacking-increase attacks, a victim of the electricity bill, and can not only slow down the infected computers, but may be irreparable damage to the hardware.

last week, after Hackers targeted crypto-jacking attacks.

Hacker uses Abdelrhman computer to mine for the crypto-money Monero

Abdelrhman Badr has no idea, as a Hacker in his system. He thinks he would have accidentally downloaded malware three weeks before he burned his hand, when he noticed strange things happening on his computer.

"If I sleep my PC, the screens would blank, but I could still hear the fan running and when I came Back To it, it would only open to the main desktop with none of the usual login-page-or-nothing," he says. "My computer was not really sleeping. "

', Shocked and embarrassed,'

Even if he burned his hand, he was the first to think that he was The Victim of a hack.

It was actually a mistake that led to his discovery.

"I was Playing Around with a program that monitors computer activity and everything looked normal, but I accidentally left it on overnight," he recalls.

"When I checked next, I found that my computer is sending lots of information Back To a strange website I've never visited or heard of. "

The website was Set Up to collect, the crypto-currency Monero.

"I was shocked and a bit embarrassed, as I remain proud of my PC safe. It is really frustrating to know that it runs as a program that I know, and some guy destroy secretly mining of crypto, my hardware and steal my power. "

It could be hundreds or even thousands of victims like Abdelrhman, who unwittingly feed the digital wallet of this hacker or Hackers .

Abdelrhman had no idea the Hacker had in his computer

"Crypto-jacking attacks will always hide more sophisticated, with techniques to your behavior," says Alex Hinchliffe, a threat intelligence analyst at Palo Alto Networks.

"Cyber criminals are looking for, for so many victims of systems as possible. The more systems, be they PCs, servers, cloud services, mobile and other smart devices, so much the better, more mining can be achieved in a relatively benign and unobtrusive. "

Crypto-jacking 'on The Rise '

experts say that The Threat of the crypto-increases support and falls with the fluctuating price of crypto-currencies. According to research from Palo Alto Networks, the attacks are currently on The Rise .

"not so profit is It profitable, how to maximize it for Hackers , so crypto miners show up in the strangest places on The Internet , The Number of victims. Sometimes we find them hidden in The Code of free programs, for example," adds Ryan added Kalember of Proofpoint, another Information Security company.

Security specialists say that computer users should be vigilant and pay attention to changes to your Computer, such as a slowdown in the performance or settings are changed. It is also a good idea to install some security software and run regular virus scans.

cyber-security, cryptocurrency, computer hacking, bitcoin

Source of news: bbc.com