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Microsoft Stopped ‘Massive’ Cryptojacking Malware Attack That Targeted 500,000 Computers

In a blog post published on Wednesday, Microsoft said their Windows Defender antivirus software helped in the prevention of a massive cryptocurrency malware attack from spreading across the globe. Just before the noon of March 6, it did so by blocking around 80,000 instances of “several sophisticated trojans that exhibited advanced cross-process infection techniques, persistence mechanisms, and…