Hackers tried to mining with 400,000 computers they attacked

Hackers have attacked more than 400,000 computers with malware and tried to get crypto money mining out of their permits.

Hackers, Russian computers, mainly to Turkey, Ukraine and other countries have set up the attack for malware. Coordinated attack lasted more than 12 hours.

According to Microsoft, 73% of the attacked computers were in Russia. This was followed by Ukraine and Turkey with 18% and 4%.

In a statement made by the research team that developed Microsoft's AV software, it said:

"Windows Defender has prevented more than 80,000 attacks from several advanced trojans that demonstrate advanced cross-process injection techniques, persistence mechanisms, and hijacking methods. More than 400,000 users have been attacked. "

Hackers tried to make mining for new Electronemic coin on the market
Researchers say behavior-based and cloud-based machine learning models in Windows Defender are detecting trojan attacks in the first instance. According to the Windows Defender team, malicious software called Dofoil, which is used for the attack, tried not to enter the explorer.exe process of the operating system and to add malicious code.

Later, the software added explorer self-crypto money mining program secretly downloaded and tried to run. Anti virus software detected and blocked these attempts when running from a different location on the hard drive.

Malicious software is programmed for the mining of the Electroneum crypto money. According to the Electroneum website, application-based mobile mining is used.