Hoffman Amplifiers Tube Amplifier Forum
Forum and Web site Stuff => Forum Issues and Information => Topic started by: DummyLoad on January 29, 2018, 11:11:39 am
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any reports of compromised system(s)?
http://www.eweek.com/security/attackers-distribute-crypto-currency-miners-via-doubleclick-ad-network
--pete
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First I have heard of it
Looks like google has already taken care of the issue?
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First I have heard of it
Looks like google has already taken care of the issue?
Yes, Google has resolved. I was just curious if you'd had any reports. We may have had some folks tagged by this.
--Pete
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I was not entirely clear on how this thing works
It looks like the server does the mining, not your local computer?
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not your local computer
not sure about the malware, but "mining" can happen at the user computer level.
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I was not entirely clear on how this thing works
It looks like the server does the mining, not your local computer?
exploit adds your PC to a botnet and it becomes a bitcoin miner.
--pete
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if you have the ability to look at your outbound traffic & you see IP flows to random IP addresses with destination protocol ports: 7777 5555 4444 3337 8220, you've been hacked.
--pete