An airport employee in Italy has installed mining farms in the workplaceAn airport employee in Italy used the employer's resources to mine Ethereum cryptocurrency, local media learned.

An airport employee in Italy installs mining farms in the workplace

An airport employee in Italy used the employer's resources to mining cryptocurrency Ethereum, local media learned.

According to them, a technician in Lamezia Terme installed malware into the system of Sacal Global Solutions, an airport service company. Thanks to this, he was able to connect several mining farms..

Finding traces of interference, Sacal notified the border guard of its sightings. During the investigation and analysis of the IT infrastructure, mining farms were found in two separate premises, connected to the Internet through airport management systems. Such an organization of activities allowed the employee to mine cryptocurrency around the clock and not spend money on electricity, the publication says..


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Analysis of IP addresses, to which was the farm is connected, showed that the attacker used the services of the Ethermine mining pool. It was calculated with help records from CCTV cameras. Police said his actions endangered the security of airport infrastructure.

Earlier, the Rosseti company estimated the damage from the activities of illegal miners at 600 million rubles.

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