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Mining chats buzzing with ASIC infection. Breaking news about virus for Antminer
by
CannCo
on 25/04/2020, 03:05:34 UTC
𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗲𝘁'𝘀, 𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝘁𝘀 𝗯𝘂𝘇𝘇𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗔𝗦𝗜𝗖 𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻.
The number of cases is growing.

“Symptoms”:

The virus is dangerous not only to S17. It supports the entire lineup of Antminer 17 and 15 and other Xilinx based models. Besides, this virus was previously found on S9, T9, L3, and similar models.
ASICs with firmware that has no signature and the tar vulnerability check, with a standard or simple password, are getting infected.
ASICs with open SSH, with a standard or simple password, are vulnerable as well.
All the ASICs in the network can get infected from a single ASIC with the virus.


𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗼 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗔𝗦𝗜𝗖𝘀