Cryptojacking Servers: The Intersection of Poor Patch Management, ICOs and Autopwning

BSidesCT 2018 - Chuck McAuley - Cryptojacking Servers: The Intersection of poor patch management, ICO's and autopwning Autopwning is not new. Neither are cryptocurrencies. Nor is bad patch management. However, in the last year the trifecta of ICO's, skyhigh cryptocurrency valuations, and easy to exploit webshells have unleashed a new form of driveby hacking. No longer is your compromised server used to send spam, get ransomwared,