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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 we know why DPRK needed the internet connection though Russia for those 20 IP addresses they have..
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"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.
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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.
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.
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.
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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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 could have been a rich man..
What kind of money are we even talking about here realistically? One thousand dollars? Five thousand?
(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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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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Just checking in. Is America great again, yet?
It never was
I sure hope you are joking because history says exactly the opposite is true. Anybody paying attention to our Civil war, WW1 and WW2 firmly realizes that the USA has done truly great things.
If you are serious, then one thing we've not apparently accomplished is providing our children an elementary education in history.
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"Moscow Donald has disgraced his family"
Hardly, his granddad operated a whorehouse in Klondike after having fled military service, I guess none-spurs weren't invented yet.
So the apple didn't fall far from the family tree.
And what do you think the Civil war was about? Yea, it didn't have *anything* at all to do with the divergence between our pledge in our foundational document (All men are created equal) and our practice of allowing slavery. No, we didn't lead the industrialized world by doing away with slavery.. Not at all... No, nearly a million died for some squabbles over who got elected president and the Civil war had *nothing* at all to do with slavery.....But actually it did have everything to do with that now didn't it?
We didn't start WW1, nor did we start WW2, in fact we attempted to stay out of both of these wars, almost too long in both cases. We didn't have anything to do with how or why the shooting started. But, it became apparent that freedom was under attack, for both us and our allies and left us with no other choice but to step in, spill our blood and treasure on foreign soil to maintain freedom. True to our creed, as a nation, we then returned the land we liberated with our treasure and blood to it's previous owners so they could enjoy their God given freedom, freedom WE paid for and won FOR them, because we as a nation believe in freedom and self determination.
It takes a great nation, guided by great principles, to do such things as these. To send our young men to die, not to protect our territory, but protect the cause of freedom for others. To fight ourselves, for freedom's sake. To return territory back to the aggressors in a wars we didn't start, but where forced to participate in.
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Did it also patch /proc to keep my fans spinning quietly? In which case I'm likely thermally throttling and they are still doing it very slowly.
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.
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