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Comment by Maakuth

6 months ago

There are operations that put cryptominers into any unauthenticated remote desktops they can find. Ask me how I know... Way friendlier than wiping your data though.

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unixhero  6 months ago

There are groups of people who hunt for writeable ftp servers to be used for random filesharing. At least this used to be a thing

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