Hi,
I've used HiveOs for a few weeks now, on and off, as I've been ill lately, but so far I really love everything about the OS except for one thing:
With regular intervals, my rigs suddenly go offline, and rebooting doesn't help, I have to mount a display and check what is going on, and my rigs then appear under other names - "mark3", "mark6" etc. instead of my own rig names.
They also appear to be mining, but not to my own accounts. So I can only assume that I have been hacked, and someone else is taking the profit.
At first I was running Claymore miner, I did a bit of googling and found that there were mentions online of hacking vulnerabilities with that miner, and so I changed to Ethminer, but today it happened again. I managed to get the rig back after forcing "firstrun -f" and entering my own rig credentials again, and I'll see how long that lasts.
After one of the previous incidients, while I was still running Claymore, the rig would just crash immediately after attempting to force "firstrun -f", so the only way to get the rig back online was to flash a new OS on a USB stick, and start over fresh.
I'd really appreciate input from people here about this issue - if anyone else have had similar issues, and if so, what to do to prevent against it.
Advance thanks!
Ooohh that sounds really scary!!! Developers, take a look at it. It could happend to anyone of us. I know developers DO HAVE access to all of our rigs, but don't want to believe they would steale our power...
Yes, it is scary and at the same time a bloody nuisance indeed.
I really don't want to think badly about the developer myself; I think he has done an impressive job with every other aspect of HiveOS except for perhaps this one security flaw. I really love the beautiful design and ease of use of HiveOS, and it wouldn't make much sense for the developer(s) to cannibalize subscription revenue by hacking subscribers rigs anyway. Not to speak of all the hard work coding HiveOS potentially going down the drain if HiveOS gets a bad reputation, so that is why I think it is far more likely a matter of a Claymore miner security vulnerability for now. But a security patch within HiveOS would be great, if possible.