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Wow... a botnet-orchestrated massive brute force attack to try and game a cryptocurrency giveaway? o.O The future was yesterday. As of this comment, 2020 RXP
by Wingman4l7 13y ago
Wow... a botnet-orchestrated massive brute force attack to try and game a cryptocurrency giveaway? o.O The future was yesterday.
As of this comment, 2020 RXP is worth ~ 0.03 BTC. Multiply by ~$500USD/BTC and you get ~$16 USD (over $20 when BTC was peaking $800+USD/BTC in the last couple days). Multiply that by the number of compromised accounts that meet the cutoff date criteria, and you get the take.
Potentially some good money depending on your success rate, but maybe not worth the cost of renting a botnet?
- alixaxel 13y agoThey actually gave you an extra 2020 RXP if you star their repository (like I did). From the 3975 RXP I could send, it turned to ~85 USD the other day. Multiply that by 1698 and you get $167k. Pretty sure it was a win for them.
- Wingman4l7 13y agoAh, I misread that -- I thought it was if you had contributed to their repo, not simply starred it. I had left it out of the calculation for simplicity's sake as I figured most people would not have done that. Where did you get the 1,698 figure -- was that the number of accounts compromised?
- alixaxel 13y agoIt's not mentioned in the body copy, but if you look at the URL slug it's there: https://github.com/blog/1698-weak-passwords-brute-forced https://github.com/blog/1698-weak-passwords-brute-forced
- borski 13y agoThat's not correct - I surmise that's the ID of the post in the DB. For example: https://github.com/blog/1681-subscribe-to-github-s-explore-email https://github.com/blog/1681-subscribe-to-github-s-explore-e...