How Unsuspecting Homeowners Helped Hackers Mine 500 Million Dogecoins
New details have emerged regarding the illicit mining of roughly half a billion dogecoins in the winter and early spring of 2014, which mainly targeted unsuspecting homeowners and may have affected thousands of customers of Taiwan-based manufacturer Synology. Earlier this week it came to light that an as-yet unidentified hacker or hackers gained administrator access to network attached storage (NAS) servers sold by Synology. This resulted in the creation of roughly 500 million dogecoins over a several month-long period, with activity peaking in February. The malware attempt first came to....
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An unknown hacker has reaped an estimated 500 million dogecoins - worth nearly $200,000 at today's prices - by hacking into a series of data storage hubs for computer networks, according to SecureWorks, an information services subsidiary of personal computing giant Dell. The SecureWorks report revealed that the hacker targeted network attached storage (NAS) boxes made by Taiwan-based Synology Inc. and used its computing power to mine dogecoin through a private pool. The action caused problems for Synology's customers, some of whom reported poor performance on Facebook in February.....
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