This bot:
It was actually written by the cat itself.
And this bot:
It was actually written by the cat itself.
As well as this bot:
It was actually written by the cat itself.
Probably more of the same guy out there!
All stolen from the original comment 6-months ago from /r/Eyebleach. At least they try to post in the same subreddit in hopes to hit it big. How they chose it is anyone's guess.
Most likely going to spam junk-crypto fart-coins.
#Edit: All three accounts destroyed!
They can probably first co-opt, and then shut down Bitcoin mining if they want. It's all corporate ASICs, 99% of which have well known locations and deals with local/national govts. They're busy forming their little coalition for Elon to profit off of yet another carbon-credits scheme; as well as censoring terrorist transactions. SharkTank guy can carve his little niche selling traunches of 72 VirginBitcoins™. It's gonna happen, just a matter of time.
That's all well and good, I doubt you'll hate me for the above. What comes next will probably be pretty uncomfortable for everyone here. Let's ease the pain by starting with a short story ...
Once upon a time in a DARPA lab, they released TCP/IPv4 to the world, and new IP addresses popped up across the globe. Shortly thereafter, bots were designed to crawl up inside open ports looking for fertile silicon to incubate new viruses. It became so ubiquitous, so impossible to stop these autonomous self replicating pieces of code, that there remains to this day a cosmic background radiation of botnet port scanners trowling the internet all day every day; and they will basically never be stopped unless the internet is shut down.
Now for the part that'll really earn the downvotes. Maybe about 20% of Monero's hashpower is botnets, some of them quite sophisticated (look up FritzFrog); and if growth keeps happening along the rate it has been for the past 18 months; in a few years there will be practically no way to shut this down, much like those botnets from 20+ years ago still portscanning today.
The consequences and judgements of this I leave to you, but it might be time to start examining what other countermeasures are available to reduce the scourge of ransomware attacks. Because I don't think banning is going to be an option for much longer, even if Corn production gets the legislative axe.
"Attackers are exploiting the ProxyLogon Microsoft Exchange Server flaws to co-opt vulnerable machines to a cryptocurrency botnet named Prometei, according to new research.
'Prometei exploits the recently disclosed Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities associated with the HAFNIUM attacks to penetrate the network for malware deployment, credential harvesting and more,' Boston-based cybersecurity firm Cybereason said in an analysis summarizing its findings.
First documented by Cisco Talos in July 2020, Prometei is a multi-modular botnet, with the actor behind the operation employing a wide range of specially-crafted tools and known exploits such as EternalBlue and BlueKeep to harvest credentials, laterally propagate across the network and 'increase the amount of systems participating in its Monero-mining pool'." (source)
Any thoughts? As a Monero newbie, I am going to be keeping an eye on this and would love to hear more experienced perspectives on this topic.
I recently did a small honey-pot project, and noticed how much of the traffic originated from the Netherlands. This coincided with a few blog-posts and news-stories where Netherlands was mentioned as one of the hotspots for C2-servers, for example with the Emotet-botnet.
Does anyone know the reason for this? Do they have some very loose cyber laws?
Hi,
I recently became interested in decentralized networks and whatnot, and I was trying to figure out what are some good (legal) uses of botnets and decentralized networks in general. What are some good legal uses of botnets? What would a company need them for?
Okay this is going to be a controversial post, but maybe we should discuss.
Some of the devs think that botnets might make up fully 20% of our hashpower. Now the immediate reaction is of course the obvious ethical considerations about hijacking someone else's computer for profit, and I 100% agree, this is a completely unethical practice, not something I, or probably hardly any of the community supports. I appreciate that we have official material to help people who may have been infected.
Nonetheless, it is starting to appear that this could be helping to secure the network in a way that makes Monero literally (or nearly) impossible to stop. Because how are you going to stop an autonomous P2P self replicating FritzFrog (or one of any other possibilities like it)? It means that govts couldn't possibly hope to stop Monero merely by making it illegal ... botnets dgaf. Moreover, there isn't some singular monolithic hacker in the world, and almost certainly, Monero botnets aren't singular either.
The argument could be made that there are certainly worse ways to find out you've been pwned, but that isn't a very good argument. And of course nothing is stopping from being exploited for both data and a Monero miner.
Anyways, the point wasn't to try to justify why this is good or okay. Far from it. But lets face it. There is an outcome here that has some apparently beneficial aspects for the network. Even at merely a social level, it becomes very difficult for anyone to claim that Monero will just be forcibly shut down or stopped. And it's a huge disincentivization for govts to even bother with trying. And since they can't beat it, ...
Have you gone to a malicious discord link related to AMC GME or the movement?
Europe?
United States?
If your answer is yes feel free to DM me if anything unusual happened or if they had bots, apps, or widgets running.
Note: this is not to find the source of an attack, but to see if Discord was used to create a Botnet.
