Antminers May Contain Backdoor Vulnerability…Or Buggy Security Feature
There have been recent allegations that Bitmain can shut down all of its Antminer mining hardware remotely. This supposed “backdoor” vulnerability has been dubbed “Antbleed,” and can be viewed via lines of code on Github and Pastebin. The website antbleed.com was created apparently to explain the vulnerability to the public. According to the website, the....
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Major Bitcoin mining hardware producer Bitmain can remotely shut down almost all active Antminer machines. Dubbed the “Antbleed” backdoor, abuse of the vulnerability could probably knock half of all hash power on the Bitcoin network offline. “Even if Bitmain had no bad intent, this is a gaping security hole,” said our source, who discovered the backdoor but asked to remain anonymous. The backdoor code can be seen on Pastebin and on GitHub, and today a website has been put up for Antbleed as well. How It Works. The Antbleed backdoor is “stupid simple,” as our source described it. Whenever....
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