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Board Mining software (miners)
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Re: Be aware of fake firmware floating around.
by
kano
on 10/03/2019, 00:37:03 UTC
⭐ Merited by philipma1957 (1) ,frodocooper (1) ,NotFuzzyWarm (1) ,HagssFIN (1)
I replied to the thread you have screenshot before it was deleted. I ran the linked “firmware” through VirusTotal, which alerted to it being a backdoor/trojan.

In this space especially, people need to be extremely cautious about everything they bring into their network environment. Only takes one mistake to have a realllly bad time.
I think it's important people should also realise that a virus check has no guarantee to find a virus - so if you do grab some software from somewhere and it passes your virus program check, that doesn't mean it doesn't have a virus.

Virus checkers only check for known viruses, so if someone makes a download and writes a new as yet unknown virus to put in it, it's possible to pass any virus program checks.