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North Korea Could Be Secretly Mining Cryptocurrency On Your Computer (qz.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: North Korea has a cryptocurrency infatuation. Its government has been accused of unleashing a global ransomware attack to raise bitcoin, mining the cryptocurrency within its borders, and hacking South Korean bitcoin exchanges. Now, research firm Recorded Future says there's a strong chance Kim Jong-un's regime is experimenting with malware that secretly mines currency using other people's computers. Malware crypto-mining is a new global trend among hackers, says a new report from Recorded Future, which monitors discussions among "the criminal underground" on the so-called dark web. Starting this year, hackers seem to be shifting away from high-intensity, widespread ransomware attacks, towards "long-term, low velocity" crypto-mining in the background. Recorded Future has not detected specific instances of North Korean malware mining, but believes that the regime has the knowhow, motive, and interest in cryptocurrencies to execute similar attacks. "North Korean threat actors have prior experience in assembling and managing botnets, bitcoin mining, and cryptocurrency theft, as well as in custom altering publicly available malware; three elements that would be key to effectively creating and managing a network of covert cryptocurrency miners," Recorded Future's report reads.
North Korea and Russia are NOT the enemy. That's the only thing that's for sure.
you mean how American companies secretly mine bitcoin using javascript?
Enjoy your western propaganda FUD of the day
Now I know why my Cinebench score dropped by 6% after update to the Windows 10 Creator's Fall Edition. NK must be mining the hell out of everybody.
Attack my computer, I dare you!
Now we know why DPRK needed the internet connection though Russia for those 20 IP addresses they have..
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Just checking in. Is America great again, yet?
"Recorded Future has not detected specific instances of North Korean malware mining"
But we're still going to make up a sensationalist story about it so that maybe you can visit our page that does Coinhive you into generating some cryptocurrency.
Thanks M'Smash, you really suck!
I have a long-standing axiom that the more something is advertised to be true, the less likely it is to actually be true. Oft-repeated superlative phrases like "fastest network", "number one in service", "widest selection", etc. can generally be taken as slowest, worst, and limited respectively.
If you feel like you're being manipulated, it's because you are. This is particularly true when you see sudden ramp-up in coverage about a story, nation, or technology where previously there had been none. A single story is one thing, but one followed by a break of a few months and then two more with shorter breaks between, then suddenly one every 2-3 weeks on the same subject sets off my BS meter.
I'm sorry, but your opinion seems to be wrong.
Don't turn your attention away from the RUSSIANS!!!!!
Those evil bastards STOLE THE ELECTION FOR DRUMPF!!!!!!!
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Indeed.
North Korea doesnâ(TM)t have an additional capability for executing code on your machine. If you secure your resources against the multitude of on going attacks, you most certainly are secure against North Korean mining code.
Any /. article whose subject includes "could be" or similar wording is speculation, not news.
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Almost anything "could" happen.
TFS says there's "a strong chance" that NK is doing something, but presents no evidence.
From TFA: "Recorded Future has not detected specific instances of North Korean malware mining"
Articles such as this are tabloid-worthy, and IMO reduce the overall quality of
Enjoy your day.
Moscow Donald has disgraced his family and his country with his treasonous subservience to a hostile foreign adversary.
I thought mining from websites would only happen if you went to a page that uses it. Anyone browsing one of the 20 web sites that North Korea has? If they're even on the general Internet at all.
I guess they could be doing through hacked ads or something like that, but we're all running ad-blockers right? Right?
I'm sure that various world governments have to be getting sick of Bitcoin and Etherium funding so-called "terrorist" states like North Korea and Iran. How much longer is it going to be before they start forcing ISP's to block transaction requests at the network layer?
Sure, the cryptocoin developers will find workarounds for such measures, but even a threat of a government trying something like this would likely cause the value of the currency to drop.
I thought I was being targeted in a scam when that woman with the Indian accent and claiming to be from Microsoft told me my computer was spreading viruses on the internet, but maybe it was all true. I hang my head in shame for the things I said to her.
Would someone please think of the children!
They are doing it very slowly. Both my CPU and GPU are near zero % utilisation.
Recorded Future has not detected specific instances of North Korean malware mining, but believes that the regime has the knowhow, motive, and interest in cryptocurrencies to execute similar attacks.
So in other words - you have exactly nothing to say, but spent an entire article saying it.
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rediculous.
with a constant stream of anti-NK news in all outlets. Seriously, they did this for Iraq too and nobody remembers it. Or if they do they don't care, they're just looking forward to the next war.
BTW, what are we gonna do with 22 million shell shocked refugees in a country that doesn't have any natural resources whatsoever?
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I know, I know. The browser vendors don't want you to (Mozilla, I'm looking at you!), they think you are an idiot and get "confused" if you have a chekbox for that, and some pages stop working in various strange ways....
Know what? Most of those pages just ain't worth the humongous shitball of badly written ad- and malware. For me, it's a preselection. Don't want to play with my streamlined browser? Take your ball and play elsewhere.
FFS, we should have learnt the lesson of "documents" with active content from the bad old times of WinWord macro viruses. Many of us aren't even old enough to remember those times.
Will fear-mongering warhawks trying to scare the public against the "red" threat succeed in getting Bitcoin banned? Or will Wall Street crony-captalists eager to scam as much money out of digital currency as possible prevail?
Could this be the end of Bitcoin?!?! Will a nuclear-powered DPRK succeed in harvesting every last drop of your spare processor power??!? Will Wall Street bilch billions from Americans before driving Bitcoin into the ground?
I can make sensationalist headlines too.
I think they stopped reporting news a long time ago. You know it's bad when CNN feels the need to check if you know what apples and bananas are.
I could have been a rich man..
What kind of money are we even talking about here realistically? One thousand dollars? Five thousand?
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(insert evil country/government/company name here) could be secretly (insert hot topic of the day here) on your (computer|smartphone|tablet|smart tv|digital assistant|electric car)
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I run Linux and I know WTF I'm doing.
Something tells me that we slaves seim in vast pools of asshattery from almost every country. Any dept. of defence anywhere really
That's a bold claim that N.K. is doing this. Any real evidence beyond an IP address? All hackers (especially nation states) automatically change MAC address and IP address, but they might put one pointing back to Russia if they want you to blame them.
Sure, the cryptocoin developers will find workarounds for such measures, but even a threat of a government trying something like this would likely cause the value of the currency to drop.
You seriously misunderstand the nature of many cryptocurrency users. An overt move by any government against any cryptocurrency would do nothing but validate their worldview and cause them to double down on their devotion to their cryptocurrency of choice. Bitcoin value against the dollar would go up, not down if a government tried to restrict its existence by interfering with the network. Even if it actually did become harder to use. A fair number of cryptocurrency users are conspiracy theorists who have been feeling immensely validated since the Snowden leaks. A move against Bitcoin would be yet more validation.
In order to mine cryptocurrency effectively it has to use CPU/GPU power. Watch your temps on both CPU and GPU. Plenty of tools available to actively monitor. If your CPU/GPU is running while you think it should be idle figure out what process is doing it. If you don't know how to do this, you shouldn't own a computer.
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No it would go down, as the people capable of doing the mining would cease
there would be no transactions recorded. It would be a death knell.
how is that north korea hasn't yet been disconnected from the internet?!?
If you took a brand-new MacBook and ran it night and day, you'd get about 20 MH/s of mining speed. The newest ASIC mining rigs put about about 13.5 TH/s... or roughly 800,000 times more power.
Even if you have a botnet with ten million drones running non-stop, it only adds up to about $5,000 a month in revenues. If you have a botnet ten million strong, there has to be a better way to monetize it.
NSA and CIA are doing these kind of things, and no country in the world is more greedy and prone to do anything it takes to get money.. it's definitely more likely that America is exploiting your computer for their own monetary gain, than North Korea.
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I'm more scared of NSA watching my every move and using my computers to mine crytocurrency to fund US government's wars all over the world.
They don't want to block transaction requests, they like what the government of China did, they want to data mine crypto currency transactions and not just because the spy vs spy types are heavily into it, sort it, as it crumbles away because it's like the number flag for criminal activity, tax evasions, espionage, computer hacking. The more crypto currency you have, the worse you look to criminal investigators. Stories like this, the early shots in the PR meme to attack crypto currency users, are a strong indicator of where all this will be going and they will be coming after you.
Chaos - everything, everywhere, everywhen
Communism does not work. North Korea is almost a third world country. They do not have some advanced IT army, let alone the ability to seriously threaten the United States. They can barely produce food. War propaganda abounds.
But really, bitcoin is "proof of theft." Theft is work!