Microsot's company’s intelligence team said a group called BISMUTH hit government targets in France and Vietnam with monero (XMR, -0.42%) mining trojans this summer.
BISMUTH is leveraging cryptocurrency miners to stay under the radar and establish persistence in targeted networks. BISMUTH is running increasingly complex cyber espionage attacks as early as 2012, using both custom and open-source tooling to target large multinational corporations, governments, financial services, educational institutions, and human and civil rights organizations.
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Resistance Levels Ahead 147.55 149.09
Psychological level of 150 needs to be strongly broken for the longer term bull trend to take hold.