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heise Security 2y ago

29-jähriger Ukrainer als Drahtzieher hinter Kryptomining-Kampagne verhaftet

Nach Einbruch in Cloud-Konten haben die Täter rund 1,8 Millionen Euro in Kryptowährungen geschürft. Der mutmaßliche Drahtzieher wurde in der Ukraine verhaftet.

https://www.heise.de/news/29-jaehriger-Ukrainer-als-Drahtzieher-hinter-Kryptomining-Kampagne-verhaftet-9597362.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege

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Ingwie Phoenix (aka. birb) 2y ago

and this is exactly where the stigma originates.

Where are the good news? Ah, right... they don't sell, I remember now...

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ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 2y ago

this is also another example of why ASICs are actually a very good thing

they completely obliterate the possibility of mining on general purpose hardware