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Sinkhole Sucks Brains From Wasteful Bitcoin Mining Botnet

Posted by Unknown on Monday September 30, 2013 @09:07PM from the so-that's-why-the-computer-lit-on-fire dept.

judgecorp writes "A sinkhole has taken a quarter of the bots out of the ZeroAcess botnet which was making money for its operators through click fraud and Bitcoin mining. This particular Bitcoin mining operation was only profitable through the use of stolen electricity — according to Symantec, which operated the sinkhole, ZeroAccess was using $561,000 of electricity a day on infected PCs, to generate about $2000 worth of Bitcoin."

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Re:RoI by Anonymous Coward · 2013-09-30 23:25 · Score: 0, Flamebait

The moron was the owner of the car.
Speaking as an old California boy, who has always had convertibles... anyone who locks the doors of a convertible deserves what they get.