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Would anyone be able to estimate how much money the attackers would’ve made doing this?
by woutr_be 6y ago
Would anyone be able to estimate how much money the attackers would’ve made doing this?
- politelemon 6y agoDepending on when you ask this question, anywhere between $.02 and $200,000
- woutr_be 6y agoThe article says they’ve been doing this since November 2020. But I was mostly referring to how much crytpo they could really mine, since I assume the process has limited CPU, and a limited run time.
- thysultan 6y agodepends on the coin, but they're making 100% irregardless cause the cpu time is "free"
- junon 6y agoNot much at all. I don't know why they bother.
- richardfey 6y agoA wild guess: 1 cent every 20$ burned away on GitHub side
- NullPrefix 6y agoSounds like a VC funded startup
- toomanybeersies 6y agoLooking at one of the CI runs, they're mining between 2-4 cents of TRTL per 6 hour CI step, and running 98 steps per run. So around $2-4 per CI run. GH hosted CI runs use Azure DS2 v2 instances. I'm not sure how GH is billed by Microsoft for compute, but the 3 year reserved pricing is $0.0405/hour. So all up, that's around $2-4 of TRTL for $23.81 of compute. Plus there's the real and opportunity cost of needing to assign engineers to try and prevent this from happening.
- exdsq 6y agoIf I were them I'd mine unpopular coins hoping that they go up in value during a general bull run in the future. That way you're quite likely to end up with a decent number of coins.
- m00dy 6y agoUnpopular coins mostly dont have their own blockchain.
- vmception 6y agoThat... actually is true now. Anything with its own blockchain and also not popular is basically worthless The mining rewards over a few months would still be just a fraction of a few million dollar marketcap network But there are quite a few valuable ones you could get a decent take on, Tellor comes to mind.
- speedgoose 6y agoThe attacker would probably make much more money selling his time and expertise once in a while instead of doing bullshit like this.
- photon-torpedo 6y agoAnother comment from ahiknsr points out one repo affected: https://github.com/Bhargav1912/test_1/pull/2/files https://github.com/Bhargav1912/test_1/pull/2/files Following the files used reveals the pool and wallet used. The pool lets you look up the stats for this wallet. For this wallet, it says: > Total Paid: 163000 TRTL - 42.16$ But I guess the culprit is rotating wallets. Judging by the hash rate, the pool estimates a weekly income of 700$. It could be a multiple of this if the culprit uses multiple wallets at once.