The criminal act of secretly stealing a target’s computing power to mine cryptocurrency isn’t quite as en vogue today as it was a year ago — due in part to cryptocurrency’s conspicuous downward turn in price, the practice isn’t wildly profitable — but the illegal practice carries on. Researchers at Slovakian cybersecurity firm ESET discovered that add-ons for the popular open source media player Kodi were part of a cryptojacking campaign extending back to at least December 2017. The malware was also added to the popular Bubbles and Gaia add-on repositories. As users updated their repositories, the malware continued to spread across the ecosystem. “It is the second publicly known case of malware being distributed at scale via Kodi add-ons, and the first publicly known cryptomining campaign launched via the Kodi platform,” researcher Kaspars Osis wrote. The Kodi platform also people to connect to different repositories, which offer app-like “add-ons” where […]
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