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Cryptocurrency Mining Meets Credential Harvesting: Inside the Multi-State Campus Cyber Scheme How secure are college campuses when global threat actors turn university hardware into secret digital currency rigs while silently siphoning off user logins?   Educational institutions manage massive digital ecosystems, but their open architectures and high trust levels make them premier targets for sophisticated cyber campaigns. Federal prosecutors recently exposed this exact vulnerability in a criminal case against defendants Roach and Stubbings . The duo orchestrated a coordinated multi-state campaign that infiltrated higher education networks, deploying malware across campus endpoints to hijack system processing power and harvest sensitive access data . Multi-Country Infrastructure and Identity Obfuscation To execute their operation while evading law enforcement , the perpetrators built an elusive, multi-national attack network. They rented virtual private servers (VPS)...