CNET - Yahoo hackers turned victims into bitcoin miners

[Deeko]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-25653664

[Jogostar]

please write more then just a link.

it could be considered post farming. ^^

[Jeroen1322]

LOL

[JAW96]

don't know how they plan to hide the fact a virus has infected the PC, because the moment it starts mining PCs start spitting fire.

[brownninja97]

please write more then just a link.

it could be considered post farming. ^^

I remember a while back in june or july i did a review for the rat 7, the thing was around 400 words long, someone said i was post whoring then.

[Jogostar]

I remember a while back in june or july i did a review for the rat 7, the thing was around 400 words long, someone said i was post whoring then.

obviously you were.

[TheRuke]

i r jelli

[Alterlai]

How likely is it they will catch the creators? Since they put a lot of work into their code and bitcoin is anonymous, I can imagine they can get away with this.

[atrash]

'Some experts estimate that such networks could be generating as much as $100,000 (£60,000) each day'. 

 

Wow that is a lot.. And they're tax free too..   

[mgsstar]

Wow guess they need to step up their enforcing system to avoid these from happening again... Thats why I use Google.

[Kevinkt]

i wonder how much they made

[exyia]

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57616958-83/yahoo-malware-turned-pcs-into-bitcoin-miners/

 

Researchers at security firm Light Cyber revealed this week that one of the malware programs aimed to use the resources of infected PCs to perform the calculations necessary to run a Bitcoin network. Revealed earlier this month by fellow security firm Fox IT, the campaign spread its package by using Yahoo's ad server to deploy malicious ads. The malware took advantage of vulnerabilities in Java to install itself on computers that visited the ads.yahoo.com site.

 

that's pretty clever I have to say. making money instead of comedic enjoyment of trashing other peoples' computers

[defunkt]

Has been done before.. A lot.

[Suspectmammal]

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57616958-83/yahoo-malware-turned-pcs-into-bitcoin-miners/

 

 

 

that's pretty clever I have to say. making money instead of comedic enjoyment of trashing other peoples' computers

A major Pro level league called ESEA in counter-strike did this and the mining even damaged some computers, they have obviously stopped now but not without trashing their reputation and a lawsuit but strangely enough people still use the service

[Tea1337]

Clever.

[DoubleY]

Clever.

The irony with your post and your signature is unreal 

[Tea1337]

The irony with your post and your signature is unreal 

HAhaha, I never realized, that's great.

[applebook]

Pretty sure this happened to me a few months ago.

 

Oh well, I was due for a reformat anyway. 

[CODELEAKER]

Jeez, people are smart these days to turn couple thousand of computers to mine for them...