A new cryptocurrency mining malware uses leaked NSA exploits to spread across enterprise networks

Two years after highly classified exploits built by the National Security Agency were stolen and published, hackers are still using the tools for nefarious reasons. Security researchers at Symantec say they've seen a recent spike in a new malware, dubbed Beapy, which uses the leaked hacking tools to spread like wildfire across corporate networks to enslave computers into running mining code to generate cryptocurrency. Beapy was first spotted in January but rocketed to more than 12,000 unique infections across 732 organizations since March, said Alan Neville, Symantec's lead researcher on Beapy, in an email to TechCrunch.