BATON ROUGE - Police arrested a college student after he allegedly installed malware on more than one hundred devices across different LSU computer labs over the course of about two years.<\/p>\n
Campus police arrested Carlos Munoz-Salazar, 25, after a campus technology services employee found a USB drive he allegedly left in one of the infected computers.<\/p>\n
Arrest records suggest the same device was used to install software on 169 different computers which allowed Munoz-Salazar to control them remotely. After gaining access, he then allegedly installed a program that allowed him to mine cryptocurrency from the university-owned computers.<\/p>\n
LSU employees said some computers were infected as far back as June 2018, and the \"attacks\" continued until the university's ITS department blocked the software on July 23, 2020.<\/p>\n
Police said the university was then able to use Munoz-Salazar's misplaced USB device to identify when he logged onto another computer at the school last week. An employee found Munoz-Salazar at the infected computer and took a photo of his student ID.<\/p>\n
Munoz-Salazar admitted to authorities he made about $2,500 from mining virtual currency on the university's computers. He was arrested Friday and booked on 169 counts of computer tampering and computer fraud.<\/p>\n
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