This is a pretty interesting story, and an interesting use (or mis-use) of cloud resources. We’ve covered similar stuff before like the case when Yahoo! was Spreading Bitcoin Mining Botnet Malware Via Ads, and then more recently when the Pirated ‘Watch Dogs’ Game Made A Bitcoin Mining Botnet. But this time it’s not malware based, […]
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Pirated ‘Watch Dogs’ Game Made A Bitcoin Mining Botnet
Pretty smart idea this one, we wrote about Yahoo! spreading Bitcoin mining malware back in January, but we haven’t really seen any of that type of activity since then. But this, this is a much better target audience – gamers with high powered GPUs! Especially as this is one of most hyped ‘next-gen’ games for […]
Yahoo! Spread Bitcoin Mining Botnet Malware Via Ads
Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are pretty much headline news every day now, especially with the inflated values (Bitcoin over $1000 recently). We haven’t mentioned them for a long time though, back in 2012 we wrote about Hackers breaking into a Bitcoin Exchange Site called Bitcoinica. There have been plenty of Bitcoin related hacks since then, […]
hashcat Download – Password Hash Cracking Tool
hashcat download below, it claims to be the world’s fastest CPU-based password recovery tool, while not as fast as GPU powered hash brute forcing (like CUDA-Multiforcer), it is still pretty fast. What is hashcat Hash Cracking Tool? hashcat was written somewhere in the middle of 2009. Yes, there were already close-to-perfect working tools supporting rule-based […]
Nvidia Investigates Claims Of Online Store Compromise During Spate Of Hacking
Just a few days back we posted about Yahoo! Voices Hacked With SQL Injection – Passwords In Plaintext, and most recently it seems someone has been going after Nvidia pretty hard. They have already had a few web properties hacked including their forum, the developer zone and their research site. The latest break in the […]