Shandong Qingzhou arrested 9 people for using Trojans to mine and illegally earning about 15 million yuan

According to the Shandong Legal Daily, Qingzhou City, Shandong Province recently approved the arrest of nine suspects including He Moufeng and Chen Mouxu on suspicion of illegally controlling computer information systems.

This case is the first new type of criminal case in Qingzhou City that uses Trojan programs to illegally control other people's computer information systems to conduct "mining" to obtain profits. It is reported that from December 2014 to April 2018, the legal representative of Dalian Shengping Network Co., Ltd. He Moufeng and the actual manager Chen Mouxu instructed other suspects to create an EXE Trojan program based on the existing mining program on the Internet, and then put it into the company's "Xuntui" client platform, and promote it in the market, develop a number of offline channels, illegally control more than 800,000 computers across the country to mine virtual currency, and trade and cash the mined virtual currency, making illegal profits of about 15 million yuan.