Not content to ruin the hopes of gamers wanting to upgrade to a Hawaii based AMD GPU now your smart devices are being press ganged into mining crypto-currency. Everything from TVs and fridges through printers, routers and security cameras can be infected with the linux.darlloz worm and will then begin mining for the author of the worm. The worm will even block other infections and has even been monitored patching certain holes in routers to prevent anything else from infecting the device and slowing down the mining computations. The Inquirer does have some humourous news about this worm, there are 31,716 separate IP addresses infected but this has manged to raise a mere $196.00 so for the author.
"A WORM that leverages the Internet of Things to mine cryptocurrencies has been found to have infected around 31,000 devices."
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Seems bitcoin mining isn’t as
Seems bitcoin mining isn’t as scalable as folding.
Can It turn my fridge,
Can It turn my fridge, toster, etc. into a render farm?
That would be a good use of this idle extra computing capacity.
Native support even 😀
Native support even 😀 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Toaster
It’s a good thing that my
It’s a good thing that my fridge and TVs are not new 🙂
A worm that uses a weakness
A worm that uses a weakness in php-cgi that was patched back in 2012? Not really worried.
But how many people haven’t
But how many people haven't patched their routers and assorted other goodies?
Too many, I do get your point
Too many, I do get your point 🙂 Too much stuff with processors in them and internet connection around.
I should have said that I am not worried for my own stuff or our stuff at work. People in general I rather not think about, like I rather not think about drunk drivers when I’m out riding on my bike.