Comment on Powerful Malware Disguised as Crypto Miner Infects 1M+ Windows, Linux PCs

• Salamendacious@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Those machines were controlling a conveyor belt system and weren’t online. I was told the software they were running wasn’t available for other OSs. They were locked in a cabinet. That entire conveyor system is now gone so those machines are probably gone too.

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  • aniki@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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    • Salamendacious@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You’re going over my head now but looking at Wikipedia that looks about right. It was controlling machinery based on input from various sensors.

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• TimeSquirrel@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Is there actually still malware floating around out there that targets old Win9x machines? I'd think that without a population of hosts, it'd all die off and nobody is motivated to write more.

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