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Honestly I would never ever execute any code from this guy. He is the inventor/founder behind the coinhive crypto mining network. [1] This guy made billions il
by cookiengineer 2y ago
Honestly I would never ever execute any code from this guy. He is the inventor/founder behind the coinhive crypto mining network. [1]
This guy made billions illegally [2], and maintained the biggest ransomware crypto coin network for years, by offering the tools and SDKs to fund dozens of cyber war involved agencies across the planet. [3]
I have no idea how he got away with it, because his name keeps appearing in lots of crypto trading companies and trade registries. (Not gonna post them, but you can google his name to find this evidence)
He even organized a doxxing campaign against brian krebs at the time called "krebsistscheisse" via his pr0gramm platform [4] [5] [6], to somehow defend the idea that abusing user's computers for personal enrichment is a legit way of making money if you donate some low percentage to cancer research with it?!?
Sorry, but I would never trust this guy's code again. You should be careful, and audit any code he writes before you execute it.
[1] https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/03/who-and-what-is-coinhive/ https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/03/who-and-what-is-coinhive...
[2] 30% fee of monero/XMR went to coinhive: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/monero/ https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/monero/
[2b] Schuerfstatistik on pr0gramm, where it all started: https://web.archive.org/web/20231005033135/https://pr0gramm.com/user/pr0gramm/uploads/2048362 https://web.archive.org/web/20231005033135/https://pr0gramm....
[2c] Troyhunt analysis after he snatched away the coinhive TLD: https://web.archive.org/web/20240804081830/https://www.troyhunt.com/i-now-own-the-coinhive-domain-heres-how-im-fighting-cryptojacking-and-doing-good-things-with-content-security-policies/ https://web.archive.org/web/20240804081830/https://www.troyh...
[3] https://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/us/security/news/cybercrime-and-digital-threats/coinhive-miner-the-6th-most-common-malware https://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/us/security/news/cybercrime...
[3] https://krebsonsecurity.com/tag/dominic-szablewski/ https://krebsonsecurity.com/tag/dominic-szablewski/
[4] https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/03/annual-protest-raises-250k-to-cure-krebs/ https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/03/annual-protest-raises-25...
[5] (German) https://www.t-online.de/digital/aktuelles/id_83466874/tausende-pr0gramm-nutzer-spenden-aus-aerger-ueber-brian-krebs-gegen-krebs.html https://www.t-online.de/digital/aktuelles/id_83466874/tausen...
[6] https://www.heise.de/news/krebsistscheisse-Spendenwelle-an-Krebshilfe-als-Protest-gegen-IT-Journalisten-4007994.html https://www.heise.de/news/krebsistscheisse-Spendenwelle-an-K...
(Lots of other articles about it, and that dominic szlablewski was the guy behind coinhive, and the original owner of pr0gramm, while still doing development work for the company that owns the imageboard officially nowadays)
- thih9 2y agoI find this context helpful, but I wish it was written in a less personal and a more objective way. Which of these sources is about the doxxing campaign? Or about making billions for that matter? And what kind of billions, monero or $?
- cookiengineer 2y agoAdded some more links/news because I was on the mobile before. If you google "doxxing brian krebs pr0gramm" you will find lots of other news sources, same as for "coinhive trade volume", as it was the platform that made monero/XMR the biggest cryptojacking platform.
- thih9 2y ago> If you google "doxxing brian krebs pr0gramm" you will find lots of other news sources I found no doxxing, I read that they organized a fundraiser, donated to cancer research, and even Brian Krebs wrote that “the response from pr0gramm members has been remarkably positive overall.”[1] [1]: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/03/coinhive-expose-prompts-cancer-research-fundraiser/ https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/03/coinhive-expose-prompts-...
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- cookiengineer 2y ago> I found no doxxing If you think that images of brian krebs' face with "Hurensohn" (German for "son of a whore") on it are not doxxing, you must be living in a parallel world. Not gonna post direct links to this, because of HN guidelines. See the VICE article about it, which still contains some of those images. [1] What I'm saying is that there was an attempt to doxx Brian Krebs, and the users of the imageboard [2] and Gamb, one of the admins, was turning that shitstorm into a positive thing. [3] [1] NSFW (kinda) https://www.vice.com/de/article/j5apm4/coinhive-die-fieseste-malware-des-jahres-stammt-aus-einem-deutschen-meme-board https://www.vice.com/de/article/j5apm4/coinhive-die-fieseste... [2] NSFW (as you might guess) https://pr0gramm.com/new/hurensohn%20brian%20krebs https://pr0gramm.com/new/hurensohn%20brian%20krebs [3] https://pr0gramm.com/user/Gamb/uploads/2455908 https://pr0gramm.com/user/Gamb/uploads/2455908