“The Egyptian government, or entities linked to it, has hijacked local internet users’ connections to secretly mine cryptocurrency ‘en masse,’ according to a new report by security researchers at the University of Toronto. Evidence of this type of intrusion by a nation-state is ‘the stuff of legends,’ the researchers say, because the techniques involved are especially difficult to detect.”
Source: A New Report Says Egypt Is Secretly Forcing Citizens to Mine Cryptocurrency – Nextgov
