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Title: ... Post by: turtlehurricane on May 08, 2014, 08:43:32 AM ..
Title: Re: Bitcoin botnets - an article by The Cryptocurrency Times Post by: dreamspark on May 08, 2014, 09:50:12 AM Interesting. I would imagine that a mining botnet would be quite expensive to rent as unlike a ddos botnet people will notice that their PC is freezing and a weird process is is eating up cpu. These people could then re install their OS so I would imagine that the botnet owners charge a premium for renting one.
This also means that the operation has to be worth the cost in the first place, from what I can see it doesnt seem massively profitable unless you hold and the coin rises in value. Title: Re: Bitcoin botnets - an article by The Cryptocurrency Times Post by: Massimo80 on May 08, 2014, 10:59:44 AM "Some botnets install mining hardware"
I'd love if some computer virus gave me free hardware... ::) Title: Re: Bitcoin botnets - an article by The Cryptocurrency Times Post by: bitcasino on May 08, 2014, 11:12:40 AM Interesting and also worrying..
How to detect and remove a botnet virus from a computer? Malwarebytes? Title: Re: Bitcoin botnets - an article by The Cryptocurrency Times Post by: goxcraft on May 08, 2014, 11:20:40 AM "Some botnets install mining hardware" I'd love if some computer virus gave me free hardware... ::) Optimists will always get benefits ;D Title: Re: Bitcoin botnets - an article by The Cryptocurrency Times Post by: turvarya on May 08, 2014, 11:56:00 AM Interesting and also worrying.. There are so many Antivir and Anti-Malware-Programs out there. Just choose one.How to detect and remove a botnet virus from a computer? Malwarebytes? Title: Re: Bitcoin botnets - an article by The Cryptocurrency Times Post by: dreamspark on May 08, 2014, 12:07:25 PM Interesting and also worrying.. There are so many Antivir and Anti-Malware-Programs out there. Just choose one.How to detect and remove a botnet virus from a computer? Malwarebytes? Not going to be too effective, most botnets will disable anti virus and spyware. Couple that with constantly changing binaries and a large portion of antivirus software wont stand a chance. Title: Re: Bitcoin botnets - an article by The Cryptocurrency Times Post by: turvarya on May 08, 2014, 12:28:40 PM Interesting and also worrying.. There are so many Antivir and Anti-Malware-Programs out there. Just choose one.How to detect and remove a botnet virus from a computer? Malwarebytes? Not going to be too effective, most botnets will disable anti virus and spyware. Couple that with constantly changing binaries and a large portion of antivirus software wont stand a chance. Wouldn't I see it, when my anti-Virus Programm is disabled? Title: Re: Bitcoin botnets - an article by The Cryptocurrency Times Post by: dreamspark on May 08, 2014, 02:46:29 PM Interesting and also worrying.. There are so many Antivir and Anti-Malware-Programs out there. Just choose one.How to detect and remove a botnet virus from a computer? Malwarebytes? Not going to be too effective, most botnets will disable anti virus and spyware. Couple that with constantly changing binaries and a large portion of antivirus software wont stand a chance. Wouldn't I see it, when my anti-Virus Programm is disabled? Yes in that case if it was simply turning it off you would see it but there are other ways of disabling anitvirus' without just turning it off. The main defence by botnet operators is more in the second half of what I said in regards to changing binaries, multiple types of malware and general slowness of some antivirus vendors to update their definitions. Not really the place to start talking about techniques etc but some googling will bring up some articles such as this; https://blog.damballa.com/archives/374 |