There is a cybersecurity firm that published a blog post claiming they figured over 50% of the airports workstations were riddled with a crypto mining software despite the fact the workstations have 'industry-standard' antivirus and were not able to detect it.
They don"t know since how many times the malware was in place because they just started to work with the airport, so possibly for months. The airport didn't notice anything before.
In a worst-case scenario, attackers could have breached the IT network as a means to hop onto the airports OT network in order to compromise critical operational systems ranging from runway lights to baggage handling machines and the air-train, to name a few of the many standard airport OT systems that could be cyber-sabotaged to cause catastrophic physical damage.
I wonder how many others are actually targeted like this one.
Many, many ATMs use x86 PCs with windows, color me surprised. They are often installed and forgotten from an IT standpoint, unless they break completely. Same with PoS, or the various computers they use both public facing and internally. They get infected with all kinds of malware, which probably includes the monero mining ones.
Perhaps they had some antivirus, they can't bother updating frequently from fear of breaking something else, until the malware breaks them, of course. But some malware is smart enough to not break its host. If you are on windows, try to learn from the experience. Its not like this is "news" whatsoever, its been like that for decades, people just never learn.
We have talked about it here before, if you abandon Windows, OSX, Android and iOS, you are 80% there. But even within the IT people there are many who don't ever bother learning using anything else, since these always break operating systems bring food to the table. But if you read this, you already know better, now its your turn:
Start with Linux, its good for you. Don't ever change, and your turn will come.