Yes I saw that to yesterday and it looked wonderful and now profit is 0.00430901 BTC/1Mh 
But looks like we are back mining ~50% LTC again this morning, well well I'm sticking with Waffle for the time.
Otherwise I had plans to move my rigs to Coinshift.com.

But since it can be any network connected device that was infected and remotely controlled the mining machines, there could be a common OS between all infected networks.  I agree that it seems unlikely, but occam's razor here.  The rest of the options seem more unlikely.

In regards to DNS hijacking - if you can do that, you're probably going to go after email systems, banking or credit card, or actual websites including hosted wallets.  It's like being given a space based laser and using it to open your can of tuna :-)

Not trying to insinuate anything, but just suggesting...  I apologize if any of these ideas have already been covered, just trying to help.


Is it possible that clevermining was hacked, or at least one of the servers was, but the hack is smart enough to only siphon off a small amount of hash?  Otherwise it would be immediately noticeable when it was implemented.

Granted it appears that other pools were affected as well.  Is it possible that they're using similar backend software that may have been compromised?

Otherwise we appear to have a paradoxical situation.

- it isn't the pool because multiple pools are affected
- it isn't cgwatcher because those without it are affected
- it isn't the miner because people's miners that haven't been touched in weeks or longer are affected (unless it's a virus on the network)
- DNS hijacking seems unlikely, as that's a pretty massive thing to implement, and if you have that ability you're probably going after bigger fish.

I think malware does seem most likely, as if cgminer is open to remote control there is no authentication.  Any computer or device anywhere on the network could scan for and redirect miners.  This way even miners that haven't been touched in a year could still be affected.

Do we have a thread with full details on everyone who has been affected?  All software installed and versions, OS, patches, windows updates on/off, last time any configuration was modified, router, ISP, location, etc?

Do we have any way to reproduce this?  Does anyone with logging enabled have a record of the request?  Is it happening frequently enough to run a network monitor?  Do we know what coin is being maliciously mined?

DNS hijacking seems unlikely, as that's a pretty massive thing to implement, and if you have that ability you're probably going after bigger fish.

cloudrck,

You only cherry picked my post and then called me stupid.  I guess, the hackers are doing man in the middle attacks on the entire interwebs..lol...fukkin idiot. Lot of the pools use same codebase and that lovely PHP crap.

This was a hack plain an simple. Quit trying to cover it up.  The pools affected were popped and no ones routers were compromised or other stupidity that this thread is trying to divert attention to.

Why wouldn't that help?

Doesn't help to determine why it's happening or who's doing it, but it will prevent it from happening.

clevermining's servers have been hacked.

The peeps running cleverminings servers apparently are not that tech savvy.  All my miners were being routed to 190.xxx and this is from 5 different subnets from 3 different ISP providers.

For safety, everyone should consider doing this on any windows rig:

route -p add 190.97.165.179 {your computer ip}


Also we should flood that IP address with invalid responses and DDoS him  

I am pretty sure most miners realized alt coin pool profitability would be a flash in the pan as markets have a tendency to eliminate these types of conditions. Going forward i doubt alt coin pools will soundly beat just mining litecoin/dogecoin combo.

Did something new happend? Why are we seeing this kind of value crash?

And they told us Scrypt is ASIC resistant?

You honestly thought I had not tried refreshing the page?
Or that I had not tried waiting a while and trying again?

When/if these are ever readily available, we all have to reinvest in new hardware.

It's farms like this that kill us little guys. Thanks for not sharing.

LTC, DOGE and some others aren't going anywhere.  Most people know there are crap coins but they also know there are really good coins that are built responsibly and stand to serve a meaningful interest as viable currency.  

The market of constant buying and selling affected by various external influences is what will eventually sink or boost any of the coins.  No sudden epiphany of a few hipsters will ever end crypto currency.  The only thing to fear is action and inaction of the fearful.  Or, more specifically, the massively hysterical.  

@Poolwaffle, nice politically correct answer. I will not provide you "any meaningful suggestions" as, to be honest, I want you to fail because (and I didn't know when I started mining but I am sure of it now) these 1.0 auto-profit switching pools are pure evil, wrecking the coin markets by operating the way they do.

I hope these pools like yours (and even the 2.0 ones) become even more useless soon when more coins start to implement custom/different protocols requiring modified mining software. We've already seen this with Keccak SHA-3 and Scrypt Jane and the different CPU only coins. I'm only hoping someone won't develop auto-protocol/algorithm-switching mining software then!

Incoherent? English not your native language? How is that incoherent?

And there is an obvious QUOTE on who I am talking to.

It is the god damn coin market you idiots. not the hash power......does that make any sense!? Oh we have a shit ton of hash but make less.

So basically what you're saying is, you don't understand how mining works at all?

Problem with profitability become apparent when the pool gets too large

Well done Waffle, you've raped and killed Auroracoin yesterday and the few days before. It's dead for now...and I'm sure you'll blame it entirely on the coin.

no stats, only says "Invalid BTC Address!", but when i was mining everything worked good so the coins must be somewhere out there.