South Korea's first cryptojacking case has been discovered, and 4 suspects have been arrested

According to Hankyung, the Cyber ​​Security Bureau of the National Police Agency of South Korea said today that the crime of "cryptojacking" was discovered in South Korea for the first time. Cyber ​​attackers hijacked the victim's computing device to mine cryptocurrency. At present, four people suspected of the crime have been arrested.

It is reported that the suspect Jin and his three other colleagues collected 32,455 email ID accounts from job seekers in their company from October to December last year, and sent emails with malicious codes to infect 638 computers for mining.