'Claymore Miner' ETH Mining Software Vulnerable To Botnet Hijacking

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A new growing botnet is targeting machines running the Ethereum mining software called “Claymore Miner” and hijacking them to mine for someone else.

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[ammaross]

Dont open port 3333 to the internet and no worries. Nothing to see here.

 

[MikeTheMic]

Etherminer notifies you if a miner is offline for a half hour. It wouldn't take long to realize your infected.

 

[ammaross]

Etherminer notifies you if a miner is offline for a half hour. It wouldn't take long to realize your infected.

Yep. And a lot of pools can notify you if you're offline for even 10min. Pretty much a non-issue unless you don't know how to manage a computer and break several best-practices.

 

[unsivilaudio]

Um Claymore isn't "closed source". You can compile it from the same github you download it from. *facepalm*

 

[ammaross]

Um Claymore isn't "closed source". You can compile it from the same github you download it from. *facepalm*

Last I checked, they did a delayed release. Claymore is on 10.5 right now, but the github only has source for 10.0. But you're right, they do eventually open the source.