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Board Mining (Altcoins)
How My Baikal A2000 Was Hacked
by
tondalink
on 16/11/2017, 07:34:37 UTC
Waking up today morning i found my Baikal A2000 was not hashing. It turns out it was hashing for some one else on nicehash with BTC address:
14c2ewCFeW1VYtyhLFWB6rFJV36ZysEWUf

https://www.nicehash.com/miner/14c2ewCFeW1VYtyhLFWB6rFJV36ZysEWUf

it seems some one out there has auto scanner searching network for Baikal A2000 and inputs password of Root:

i only lost 8 hours of hashing on 1 machine.
here are the following mistakes i made:
1) I put the Baikal A2000 in DMZ (nicehash was not working so i figured DMZ might fix the issue)
2) I kept the default user and changed the password
3) disabled firewall on my router

Just a headsup to people. to not show Baikal A2000 to internet ( Public IP)

In all honesty it was my own stupidity and complacency.