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12-14-2017, 07:00 PM
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A CAFFEINE PEDDLING Starbucks store in Buenos Aires is not the place you'd expect to find illegitimate cryptocurrency mining to go alongside your venti triple shot skinny mint latte. But Noah Dinkin discovered his laptop had been infected by malware ...
Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin being SECRETLY mined by 'HIJACKING' free Starbucks wifi (http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&ct2=ca&usg=AFQjCNFyhOESOCRFPHF0xLqbEayzLKdOMA&clid=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331&cid=52779715685760&ei=n9gyWsD2F4ihqwLe9LDIBg&url=https://www.express.co.uk/finance/city/892104/bitcoin-cryptocurrency-mining-starbucks-monero-Open-load-Streamango-Rapidvideo-wifi-hijack)Express.co.uk
Starbucks cafe's wi-fi made computers mine crypto-currency (http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&ct2=ca&usg=AFQjCNGWEJNh50WqafIr7UfgkrEIn-Or_g&clid=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331&cid=52779715685760&ei=n9gyWsD2F4ihqwLe9LDIBg&url=http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-42338754)BBC News
Starbucks Wi-Fi hijacked customers' laptops to mine cryptocoins (http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&ct2=ca&usg=AFQjCNEUkac-tDlz78DDQdmvVPWoQANScw&clid=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331&cid=52779715685760&ei=n9gyWsD2F4ihqwLe9LDIBg&url=https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2017/12/14/starbucks-wi-fi-hijacked-customers-laptops-to-mine-cryptocurrency/)Naked Security
Daily Sabah (http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&ct2=ca&usg=AFQjCNHvYfjbBqSEvu1fpZjwFw93d8eGRA&clid=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331&cid=52779715685760&ei=n9gyWsD2F4ihqwLe9LDIBg&url=https://www.dailysabah.com/finance/2017/12/14/starbucks-wi-fi-hijacked-to-mine-cryptocurrencies-on-customers-devices) -Wccftech (http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&ct2=ca&usg=AFQjCNH5BagnrIXyLx4qcWxisifayuadJw&clid=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331&cid=52779715685760&ei=n9gyWsD2F4ihqwLe9LDIBg&url=https://wccftech.com/love-using-free-wifi-starbucks-paying/) -SC Magazine UK (http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&ct2=ca&usg=AFQjCNGnaarZEDueRRV1ldKLQSR62cLlfg&clid=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331&cid=52779715685760&ei=n9gyWsD2F4ihqwLe9LDIBg&url=https://www.scmagazineuk.com/news/starbucks-free-wi-fi-caught-secretly-mining-cryptocurrency/article/718537/) -Motherboard (http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&ct2=ca&usg=AFQjCNEHOWUUHXrdaqlJ4nzYYesjUzrpEA&clid=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331&cid=52779715685760&ei=n9gyWsD2F4ihqwLe9LDIBg&url=https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/gyd5xq/starbucks-wi-fi-hijacked-peoples-laptops-to-mine-cryptocurrency-coinhive)
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