Italian airport employee mined cryptocurrency at work

The security service of the airport of the Italian city of Lamezia Terme has discovered several farms for the extraction of cryptocurrencies in the premises of the airport, as well as the master-master in computer systems.

According to the local publication RAI News, 41-Summer employee of the Italian airport used his official position, to infect Sacal Global Solutions systems with a miner virus, serving the airport. He used the computing power of computers to mine cryptocurrencies. Besides, he hosted several of his own mining farms, and powered them from the airport's electrical network. This process was captured on CCTV cameras..

The investigation was supervised by the prosecutor of Lamezia Terme. Investigators, in cooperation with airport representatives, analyzed parts of the IT system within the organization. They discovered mining farms in two rooms, Internet-connected via the airport network and powered buildings. It turned out, that the detected IP addresses, accessed by mining farms, configured for Ethermine pool, used for Ethereum mining.

Recall, that three ex-policemen were recently convicted in the Smolensk region. They illegally seized mining equipment worth 40 million rubles.