3000 + Miners hacked - Telnet - Security -

[AtraxPool]

Found this posted few hours ago.

Seems nothing is safe in bitcoin anymore! We are officialy under the worst period of attacks in bitcoins history. First it was users. Then it was the exchanges, Now its the miners who are under attack.

Might be a good idea if your running any machines to have a check over them double check firewall rules ect.

http://www.bitcoininsider.org/article/5418/nearly-3000-bitcoin-miners-were-exposed-remote-telnet-attack

[NotFuzzyWarm]

Found this posted few hours ago.

Seems nothing is safe in bitcoin anymore! We are officialy under the worst period of attacks in bitcoins history. First it was users. Then it was the exchanges, Now its the miners who are under attack.

Might be a good idea if your running any machines to have a check over them double check firewall rules ect.

http://www.bitcoininsider.org/article/5418/nearly-3000-bitcoin-miners-were-exposed-remote-telnet-attack

Yes it brings up a valid thing to look at on the Bitmain, Avalon and other BITCOIN miners (disabling remote Telenet access) but....

Read that article and it is clear why the BTC area of this forum gets pestered with so many altcoin queries: Time and again the article talks about BTC miners in China being taken offline and then -- proceeds to finally say that they are LITECOIN miners.

It is certainly possible all of these miners are pointed to the Litecoin network, considering how the machines appear to refer to “Thunder” hardware. That would identify the hardware as ZeusMiner’s Thunder X3 miners, which are used to generate Litecoin income over time. The firmware located on the identified devices seems to confirm as much. These machines combined can generate around US$1 million in income every single day.

Of all the idiotic 'reporting'... good lord...

[fanatic26]

Whoever wrote that article has no clue about anything crypto im guessing.

As an FYI, the only current generation miner with open telnet is the Avalon (well its rpi image). Telnet is immediately disabled when you put a password on the GUI.

[ntsdm1]

it is a pity for today's crypto readers to see an article like that!
 they should at least have a person semi knowledgeable on the facts before writing the article