#crypto-mining — Public Fediverse posts
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XMRig Covert Ops: The Cryptomining Campaign That Abuses Trusted Access and Deploys Forensic Smokescreens
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#CryptoMining #CyberSecurity #InfoSec #OTX #OpenThreatExchange #Rust #bot #Tr1sa111
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Gothamist: Upstate NY crypto mine seeks to become data center. “The Greenidge Generation plant’s neighbors have long complained that the facility, which has more than 20,000 continuously operating computers, is a threat to the picturesque region. Now, Greenidge has rebranded as Vulcan Infrastructure and Power, and is asking for 200 megawatts of additional power from the grid — enough energy […]
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XMRig Covert Ops: The Cryptomining Campaign That Abuses Trusted Access and Deploys Forensic Smokescreens
In May 2026, a sophisticated Monero cryptomining campaign was identified targeting Linux environments. Attackers gained initial access through trusted third-party relationships, then escalated to root privileges. Rather than operating openly as root, they weaponized Linux Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) to impersonate multiple low-privileged users, creating a forensic smokescreen and establishing redundant persistence through cronjobs. The operators suppressed system logging and deployed a customized XMRig 6.25.0 implant that self-unlinks after execution, running entirely in memory. The binary uses XOR encryption for configuration obfuscation and employs process masquerading to blend with legitimate processes. Campaign tracking revealed operations linked to the V25 Generation 26 family, connecting to the domain unable.download for mining pool communication.
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#CryptoMining #CyberSecurity #ELF #Encryption #InfoSec #Linux #OTX #OpenThreatExchange #RAT #Rust #bot #AlienVault
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XMRig Covert Ops: The Cryptomining Campaign That Abuses Trusted Access and Deploys Forensic Smokescreens | Group-IB Blog
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#CryptoMining #CyberCrime #CyberSecurity #GroupIB #InfoSec #OTX #OpenThreatExchange #Rust #bot #CyberHunter_NL
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Screeeeecccch! 😱 But don't worry, gentle residents. #Hyperscale has offered to buy your homes! smh
This Viral #Datacenter Sounds Like Satan’s Buzzsaw
My God, the looks on the faces of the people who have to live next to this...By Mike Pearl
Published July 27, 2026,"Obviously in a news report, it’s impossible to truly judge exactly how the noise sounds from inside one of these homes, but there’s a revealing moment starting at the 2 minute and 10 second mark in the video. The screech is followed by a shot of Marjorie Finn, who’s been hearing this noise nonstop for years, and that experience looks to be indelibly etched on her face. Duffy asks her how her life has changed since the sound started, and the pause before she answers says everything."
https://gizmodo.com/this-viral-data-center-sounds-like-satans-buzzsaw-2000791122?
#CryptoMining #Datacenters #Cyptocurrency #NoisePollution #BigData #Michigan
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Once one of the largest bitcoin miners, previously with ~ 18-20% share, Poolin, has filed for bankruptcy alongside its two U.S. affiliates Lonestar Dream and Lonestar Taproot. Estimated liabilities are between $100-$550M. https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2026/07/24/poolin-was-bitcoin-s-biggest-mining-pool-and-now-it-s-filing-for-bankruptcy #Crypto #CryptoMining #BitCoin #Bankruptcy #Chapter11 #Poolin #BitCoinMining
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Wait, a lot of people are just doing #Cryptomining and #AI training because the business power is cheaper than residential in their area?
lol
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📣🚨 An AI gateway connected to Amazon Bedrock was hijacked for cryptomining, showing how exposed cloud access can turn AI infrastructure into a high-value attack target.
Listen/Read: https://hackread.com/ai-gateway-amazon-bedrock-hijacked-cryptomining/
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Deputy Home Minister: Over 75,000 Cryptominers Seized Since 2022 #crypto #cryptocurrency #cryptominers #cryptomining
https://www.lowyat.net/2026/398065/deputy-home-minister-over-75000-cryptominers-seized-since-2022/
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TechSpot: Fake downloads of popular PC utilities are quietly installing crypto miners on enthusiast PCs. “The Windows Defender security team is alerting users with dedicated GPUs about scammers manipulating search engine results to distribute remote monitoring and cryptomining payloads. The hackers are manipulating not only search engine results but also AI chatbot responses.”
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We had an #incident this past Friday with a #cryptomining attack. The attacker managed to break into an #nginx proxy node. We have created a #blog post about the incident documenting the attack and some changes that we've been made.
https://invirtuate.com/blog/incidents/ElPatrono1337-color1337-cryptomining-attack
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Louisville Public Media: Massive new data center project announced in northeastern Kentucky. “TeraWulf says the Muskie Data Campus will eventually need more than one gigawatt of electricity, or enough to support more than 800,000 average homes for an entire year. The bitcoin mining company expects to need its first 500 megawatts by the second half of 2028 and the rest in 2030.”
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New AI-compute cryptocurrency Pearl sparks a GPU mining rush but profitability is already sliding — RTX 5090 daily revenue has halved to $17.19 since April
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Nintendo's decision to hike #Switch 2 prices is the corporate way of saying, "We know you'll pay anything for a few more polygons!" 🎮💸 Meanwhile, fans are left wondering if they should start mining crypto to afford the next Mario game. 😂 #GamingEconomics
https://www.nintendo.co.jp/corporate/release/en/2026/260508.html #GamingEconomics #Nintendo #PriceHike #CryptoMining #MarioGame #HackerNews #ngated -
@caohuak @silverpill Well, to be honest, that crypto stuff doesn't have its bad rep entirely undeservedly. It appears to be used as a cash grab or for get-rick-quick schemes more often than not.
The massive gambling with the big cryptocurrencies Bitcoin and Ethereum that causes both to be highly volatile.
Gigantic Ethereum mining farms with countless high-end graphics cards that eat up more electricity than a bigger town, often even fossil or nuclear energy because there simply isn't enough renewable energy available where they're located.
NFT hypes. Masses of NFTs that were procedurally generated and sold for insane amounts of money. See Bored Apes. They've made a few people very rich with next to zero effort. Others have lost a lot of money because these NFTs are literally absolutely worthless today.
And this is a field that I'm pretty familiar with: The Metaverse. Mind you, I'm not talking about Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Threads. That isn't the Metaverse. I'm not talking about "the Metaverse" a.k.a. "the Meta Metaverse" a.k.a. "the Facebook Metaverse" a.k.a. "Zuckerberg's Metaverse" either which, by the way, is actually named Horizon.
No, I'm talking about cryptobros jumping upon the Metaverse bandwagon, hoping to squeeze some money out of it.
The blueprint of this all has to be a virtual world named Decentraland which was opened in February, 2020, just in time for the COVID-19 pandemic that caused real-life social interaction to grind to a complete halt and made virtual worlds the more popular.
In fact, it was a crypto platform before it became a virtual world. In 2017 already, its own cryptocurrency MANA, which is on the Ethereum blockchain, was first traded to raise money to get the world itself started. And even as a virtual world, it's a crypto platform because Decentraland is pretty much all about minting and selling NFTs.
Part of its concept is that deeds to parcels of land are minted as NFTs and then sold. And these parcels aren't even that big. Better yet, they were sold before they even existed as actual virtual land. Basically, Decentraland sold deeds to something that they yet had to make. But they got enough customers to bite, including big fashion brands, but also real-estate companies that scooped up land to sell it with a big profit.
Users, especially right-wing extremists, created avatars with slurs for names just to mint them as NFTs and sell them for a fortune. Nothing was done against it. I mean, the more NFTs were sold for MANA, the more MANA was traded, the more volatile it became, the higher profits one could make by trading it.
Decentraland advertises itself as "the first decentralised Metaverse". This is nonsense. Yes, it's "decentralised" in the sense that MANA is not running on the Bitcoin blockchain. Yes, it's also "decentralised" in the sense of being governed by a DAO.
But the virtual world system itself is a centralised, monolithic silo owned and operated by one and the same entity. The actual "first decentralised Metaverse" is made up of the worlds based on OpenSimulator from as early as 2007. This, by the way, is where I regularly am.
It's every bit as decentralised as any Fediverse software out there. As in, you can have an avatar in one world and teleport to another world, on another server, under another domain, owned and operated by other people, appearance, inventory and all. As in, the five developers, including only one actual coder, don't own anything beyond their own patches of land.
Another aspect that makes blatantly clear just how Decentraland is a crypto cash grab more than anything else: The actual world itself is buggy as hell. And precious little is done to fix these bugs. In fact, they don't even seem to matter because Decentraland is not about spending time in-world, which is why it's rather deserted and empty, but about minting, selling and buying NFTs.
As COVID brought with itself a virtual world boom from which even Second Life could profit, crypto-based virtual world started spreading. For example, The Sandbox had already been bought out, and it came back in March as a crypto-based world.
Hundreds of virtual worlds were at least announced in the early 2020s, all copying Decentraland's concept of minting deeds to virtual land as NFTs, backed by nothing more than an announcement and a promise, before even getting started with the actual virtual world. The latter was to be quickly and cheaply cobbled together using some 3-D game engine like Unity or Unreal Engine, neither of which is really fit for virtual worlds in which users can build stuff.
The best outcome was an actual virtual world which was barely in a functional state. It only existed for there to be something backing the NFTs. Oftentimes, the financial assets behind the world were kept in cryptocurrencies, hoping that they rise in value which would create more financial assets out of nothing. But when the cryptocurrency crashed, it became impossible to pay for the operation of the world or whatever employees it had. Crypto crashes kept killing crypto-based worlds left and right. It didn't help that most crypto-based virtual worlds used existing cryptocurrencies like Dogecoin.
In many other cases, however, there never was an actual virtual world to begin with. They never got it running. So their customers were sitting their with their expensive NFT land deeds and waiting for the actual land to be made. The longer it took for an announced virtual world to materialise, the harder it got to sell more NFT land deeds because the more unlikely it became that the actual land would ever exist. If plummeting land sales didn't put an end to the endeavour, the next crypto crash did.
I think there were even scammers among these cryptobros. They, too, announced a hot new crypto-based virtual world. They, too, started selling land deeds as NFTs. But they never had the intention to actually create and launch a virtual world. They sold shit-tons of NFTs for shit-tons of crypto money. Then they waited for the cryptocurrency to soar. If they were smart, they traded it all for millions in fiat money and made away with it to someplace offshore. If they weren't, if they wanted to keep on gambling, they, too, lost almost everything in a crypto crash.
Lastly: Around 2021/2022, many cryptobros staunchly insisted in virtual worlds absolutely requiring a blockchain, a cryptocurrency and NFTs for everything. According to them, it's technologically absolutely impossible to build virtual worlds without even only one of these. This was to keep people from getting interested (and invested) in non-crypto virtual worlds.
As a matter of fact, however, there are lots of virtual worlds that don't use a blockchain, that don't have a cryptocurrency, that don't have NFTs for anything. Second Life doesn't, and it never has since its launch in 2002. And Second Life still generates more revenue per user and month than Facebook, legally even.
OpenSim doesn't anywhere. Sansar didn't. High Fidelity didn't. Vircadia doesn't. Overte doesn't. Roblox doesn't. VRChat doesn't. Rec Room didn't. (Formerly Mozilla) Hubs doesn't. Horizon doesn't. Just to name a few. Some of these don't have any in-world payment system at all.
All these blatant lies, the total neglect of the actual virtual worlds and their misuse as a money printer don't really make me trust in crypto. Neither do the rampant gambling and the volatility.
Oh, and don't get me started about land prices in Decentraland vs Second Life vs OpenSim.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #VirtualWorlds #Metaverse #TheMetaverse #Decentraland #TheSandbox #Blockchain #Crypto #Cryptocurrency #Cryptocurrencies #NFT #NFTs #Cryptobros #Cryptomining #CryptoScam #CryptoCrash #NFTCrash -
Inventor showcases 3D printer filament dryer that mines Bitcoins and dries filament with waste heat, capable of 6 TH/s at 140W — joins Bitcoin-mining 3D printer in hobbyist-focused miner lineup
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REF1695 hackers have been spreading #Monero mining malware for months via fake non-profit installers, using stealth tactics to evade detection and hijack systems for profit.
Read: https://hackread.com/hackers-non-profit-developers-monero-mining-malware/
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There was a time when we considered improving the #EnergyEfficiency of #backend services by switching from interpreted to compiled languages, out of concerns about #ClimateChange. Then came the #CryptoMining farms, AI #hyperscalers and #neoclouds - monstrosities that #pollute grotesquely and guzzle as much power as some nations. And people quit talking about climate change. Everyone seems to have given up in despair and accepted their fate!
Damn those #profiteering #psychopaths!
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Bitcoin network has its first quarterly hashrate drop since 2020 — Iran conflict spurs Bitcoin mining operators to accelerate pivot to AI infrastructure
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Das Eigenleben einer KI
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3D printer that can mine Bitcoin uses excess heat for temperature control — throttled ASICs use printing bed as a heatsink
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CW: Political economy
Soo the #technology press is exposing the #aiwashing used as a cover for all the #layoffs. I wonder if #AI also is being used to hide the actual users and usage of #datacenters. #AI is probably a softer sell than #cryptomining . 🤔 #journalists attack!
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Tom’s Hardware: Russia cracks down on ‘illegal’ cryptomining with prison terms up to five years — Kremlin will begin prosecuting in 2027. “Russia is preparing to move cryptocurrency mining from a regulatory gray zone into the core of its criminal law, with penalties ranging from fines to prison terms of up to five years. The draft legislation is expected in 2026, reports CNews.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/01/06/toms-hardware-russia-cracks-down-on-illegal-cryptomining-with-prison-terms-up-to-five-years-kremlin-will-begin-prosecuting-in-2027/ -
TechSpot: Over 230 environmental groups across the US are asking Congress to halt AI data-center expansion. “A large coalition of environmentally-focused organizations has sent a scathing letter to members of Congress, urging US representatives to put the development of new data centers on hold. The letter identifies generative AI and cryptocurrency as among the most significant environmental […]
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Bitcoin mining is surging again in China despite the ban, rising to 14% of global share thanks to cheap electricity and new covert operations. Mining rig maker Canaan is seeing booming sales, signaling strong market revival.
#Bitcoin #CryptoMining #ChinaCrypto #Canaan #Blockchain #CryptoNews #TECHi
Read Full Article Here :- https://www.techi.com/bitcoin-mining-surges-back-in-china-hashrate-canaan-sales/
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Wind farm worker sentenced after turning turbines into a secret crypto mine https://www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hotforsecurity/wind-farm-worker-sentenced-after-turning-turbines-into-a-secret-crypto-mine #cryptomining #Guestblog #Lawℴ #energy
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Texas Observer: Crypto’s Cryptic Texas Takeover. “State regulators don’t want you to know about the 60-plus Bitcoin mines guzzling public water and electricity—even though consumers are already paying the price.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/16/texas-observer-cryptos-cryptic-texas-takeover/