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REVEALED: Undetectable cryptomining technique found lurking on microsoft azure automation | Rare Historical Photos

Bitcoin.

Someone found a loophole in Azure that allowed them to create free money and never get busted, but instead of using it - they reported it to Microsoft and had it fixed.

That someone is a team of researchers from the SafeBreach cybersecurity company, who, as an experiment, set out to see if they could build the perfect crypto miner: one that uses other people’s resources (for example cloud computing power, internet, electricity), needs virtually no management, doesn’t cost a dime, and is basically impossible to detect.

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