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Title: [2016-09-11] Slashdot - Malware Infects 70% of Seagate Central NAS Drives Post by: TraderTimm on September 11, 2016, 03:10:53 PM Malware Infects 70% of Seagate Central NAS Drives, Earns $86,400
An anonymous Slashdot reader writes: A new malware family has infected over 70% of all Seagate Central NAS devices connected to the Internet. The malware, named Miner-C or PhotoMiner, uses these hard-drives as an intermediary point to infect connected PCs and install software that mines for the Monero cryptocurrency... The crooks made over $86,000 from Monero mining so far. The hard drives are easy to infect because Seagate does not allow users to delete or deactivate a certain "shared" folder when the device is exposed to the Internet. Over 5,000 Seagate Central NAS devices are currently infected. Researchers estimates the malware is now responsible for 2.5% of all mining activity for the Monero cryptocurrency, according to the article. "The quandary is that Seagate Central owners have no way to protect their device. Turning off the remote access NAS feature can prevent the infection, but also means they lose the ability to access the device from a remote location, one of the reasons they purchased the hard drive in the first place." ---------------- So much for the "taking over the darknet" excuse.... it was a malware install spike, lol. https://news.slashdot.org/story/16/09/11/0028238/malware-infects-70-of-seagate-central-nas-drives-earns-86400 Title: Re: [2016-09-11] Slashdot - Malware Infects 70% of Seagate Central NAS Drives Post by: aigeezer on September 11, 2016, 06:16:35 PM This may be closer to the origin of the story: http://news.softpedia.com/news/cryptocurrency-mining-malware-discovered-targeting-seagate-nas-hard-drives-508119.shtml
Are there any other confirming (or denying) sources? I've not seen any yet. Title: Re: [2016-09-11] Slashdot - Malware Infects 70% of Seagate Central NAS Drives Post by: Kprawn on September 11, 2016, 07:44:45 PM So, I wonder how much hash power are they going to lose now, once this bug is fixed? This will weaken their network and people will become
more exposed to a takeover, if someone can harness enough hash power to take over the network or a significant part of it. I guess we might see some people migrating back to the God father of all Crypto currencies, called Bitcoin after this. ;D |