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ThreatPost is reporting that a hacker, well-versed in malware and exploit development, took advantage of vulnerabilities in Synology network attached storage boxes popular with home users to mine more than $600,000 worth of the digital currency Dogecoin.
Researchers Pat Litke and David Shear of Dell SecureWorks' Counter Threat Unit published details of the attack, which exploited four vulnerabilities in the Synology boxes' DiskStation Manager Linux-based operating system. The bugs were reported last September and patched in February.
"To date, this incident is the single most profitable, illegitimate mining operation. This conclusion is based in part on prior investigations and research done by the Counter Threat Unit, as well as further searching of the Internet," they said. "As cryptocurrencies continue to gain momentum, their popularity as a target for various malware will continue to rise."
(Score: 3, Interesting) by DECbot on Friday June 20 2014, @09:39PM
Are you telling me my smart phone isn't already doing this? Why the hell does my battery drain so quickly then?
Oh yeah, NSA/advertisers' click, image, conversation, and location tracking. But anyhow, I was thinking about how to implement something like this at home, but never got around the cost of energy issue. Perhaps if I consider putting it on a solar panel or wind turbine, such a rig could actually turn a profit..... time to search for bit-mining equipment, power requirements, solar panels, and measure the size of my roof....
.... Perhaps in 20 years, once the investment is paid off, I might be able to afford a burger from the profits. If only I had access to a few thousand consumer devices, something that sat around all day consuming power but with little load. You know, like a NAS box or a refrigerator. Yessss... my precious... an Internet of Things.....
cats~$ sudo chown -R us /home/base