Antivirus provider Kaspersky uncovers a sophisticated piece of 'StripedFly' malware camouflaged as a cryptocurrency miner that's been targeting PCs for more than five years.

Antivirus provider Kaspersky uncovers a sophisticated piece of ‘StripedFly’ malware camouflaged as a cryptocurrency miner that’s been targeting PCs for more than five years.

  • @CriticalMissEnglish
    11•1 year ago

    I won’t argue about the legitimacy of crypto simply because I don’t care enough but you have to be fucking stupid to run non-FOSS crypto miners and instead go with something proprietary like this and then be surprised it fucks up your shit.

    • @SalamendaciousOPEnglish
      2•1 year ago

      Is there a difference between FLOSS & FOSS? Besides the word libre?

      • @CriticalMissEnglish
        1•1 year ago

        Libre is Spanish for free, so I guess not.

        • @[email protected]English
          2•1 year ago

          FLOSS & FOSS

          To emphasize that “free software” refers to freedom and not to price, we sometimes write or say “free (libre) software,” adding the French or Spanish word that means free in the sense of freedom. In some contexts, it works to use just “libre software.”

          From https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/floss-and-foss.en.html

          They also say:

          We in the free software movement don’t use either of these terms, because we don’t want to be neutral on the political question. We stand for freedom, and we show it every time—by saying “free” and “libre”—or “free (libre).”

    • @[email protected]English
      -1•1 year ago

      I don’t care enough but you have to be fucking stupid to run non-FOSS crypto miners

      Fixed that for you.