{"id":47390,"date":"2021-08-09T09:42:42","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T06:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=47390"},"modified":"2025-09-01T21:09:36","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T18:09:36","slug":"kamchatka-region-government-foils-monero-mining-attempt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/kamchatka-region-government-foils-monero-mining-attempt\/","title":{"rendered":"Kamchatka region government foils Monero mining attempt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the Kamchatka region, several civil servants installed software for cryptocurrency mining on the computers of the regional government. <a href=\"https:\/\/kam24.ru\/news\/main\/20210809\/83287.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a> by local media.<\/p>\n<p>The programs were detected under the officials&#8217; accounts on automated workstations. They allowed mining Monero, Bytecoin and Infinium-8.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&quot;The detected malware could threaten the security of the Kamchatka regional government&#8217;s internal network and expose computers and servers to infection by hidden miners,&quot; the regional government said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The investigation materials have been handed over to the FSB.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, in February, the head of the Chelyabinsk division of Russian Railways (RZD) became <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/in-chelyabinsk-a-criminal-case-has-been-opened-against-the-head-of-a-russian-railways-division-over-on-site-mining\">a suspect in a criminal case<\/a> due to mining at the workplace.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 the full feed of news, <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news, infographics and opinions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Kamchatka region, several civil servants installed software for cryptocurrency mining on the computers of the regional government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47391,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1154,1137,1711,27],"class_list":["post-47390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-crimes","tag-cryptocurrency-mining","tag-public-administration","tag-russia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"10","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47390"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47392,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47390\/revisions\/47392"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}