FBI charges NiceHash founder over a plot to create and distribute malware through the dark web

The FBI is pursuing a team of hackers, including the fonder of the easy-use mining software NiceHash, over an alleged plot to create and distribute malware via Darkode, a major dark web forum, The Next Web reports. Matjaz “iserdo” Skorjanc, creator of NiceHash, has already served almost five years in prison for creating the Mariposa botnet of more than one million infected machines, and was released in late 2017.

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