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You DDoS from routers and other embedded devices which aren’t capable of mining anything.
by ryanlol 5y ago
You DDoS from routers and other embedded devices which aren’t capable of mining anything.
- short12 5y agoThere have been many attempts to do exactly that with varied success. The best I could find was 250 a day using only 15,000 hosts. Not bad considering the cost is literally zero for the attackers. Scale that up to half a million hosts, which is a tiny botnet in reality would make 8000+ a day or over 3 million a year based on low hanging fruit https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/01/thousands-of-iot-devices-can-be-hacked-to-mine-cryptocurrency-avast.html https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/01/thousands-of-iot-devices-can...
- Sebguer 5y agoThere are bandwidth-based coins.