The curse Antminer: Chinese miners were the victims of a dangerous new virus
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The Chinese miners re-entered the losing streak — now their attack, an unknown virus, with victims have lost tens of thousands of dollars due to hacker attacks. Earlier, local miners had to sell their hardware in bulk due to the rapid fall in the profitability of mining Bitcoin.
According to local media, victims of hackers have become the owners of Asimov from Bitmain. The attackers send the miner a warning that the device will be overheated, if he will not pay 10 bitcoins to the specified address.
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Fortunately, to get rid of the antics of fraudsters on their own. For this it is sufficient to format the SD card of the infected device. In fact this process is similar to reinstalling the operating system.
Hacker attack still causes losses, because after hitting one big ASIC mining farms, the virus is spreading in all vehicles. The process of formatting and restarting miners the equivalent of four days of downtime of a large firm.
The Virus is sewn in for overclocking, often used by miners to disperse Hasrat their Asimov. The first cases appeared in August last year. The victims then reported on the problems with S9 and T9.
Since then, hackers were able to upgrade the virus. Now it is activated immediately in contact with the device, and maybe some time to operate covertly. Hacker decides when to activate «sleep virus» to inflict maximum damage to the miner.
Source: Trust Nodes
Another Chinese businessman Wang Wei said that the virus was able to change the address of its crypto to the address of the swindlers. Money for a few days of work, i.e. approximately $ 8000, leaked to the hackers. More details about the intricacies of iron can be found in our .
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