Is your router infected with cryptocurrency malware?

Hundreds of thousands of routers are quietly mining cryptocurrencies, new research has revealed…

The rise of cryptojacking continues, whereby hackers are secretly placing a small program on infected computers that quietly mines cryptocurrency for them. The code tends to do no damage to the computer itself, but it does cause it to work harder. It’s thus not without some impact.

It’s often very hard to detect too when there’s such malware running on a machine, and now we learn that the problem is growing with hardware routers as well. Research that’s been undertaken by VriesHD has uncovered over 400,000 cases across the world of routers being secretly hijacked to mine cryptocurrency.

This is not an attack that’s reached its conclusion either. In particular, routers released under the MicroTik brand name are being targeted. The bulk of the attacks are taking place in Brazil, but infections have been recorded right across the globe, the UK included.

Fortunately,…