Minería de bitcoins a pequeña escala cada vez es menos rentable
The popular video game has become the target of Russian hackers looking to scam players out of their BTC.
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The popular video game has become the target of Russian hackers looking to scam players out of their BTC.
Read more: https://cryptovest.com/news/crypto-malware-allows-scammers-to-steal-bitcoin-through-fortnite/
Read more: https://cryptovest.com/news/crypto-malware-allows-scammers-to-steal-bitcoin-through-fortnite/
Epic Game’s smash
hit Fortnite has become the target of crypto-malware. Russian hackers
have used the popular multiplayer video game to scam players out of
their Bitcoin.
Fortnite is one of the most successful contemporary video games, and has attracted over 125 million players as of June 2018. The malware took advantage of the launch of the game’s Sixth Season.
According to research conducted by Malwarebytes Labs, cybercriminals have developed malware disguised as a cheat tool for the popular game. The hack steals user data and bitcoin from Fortnite gamers, and is advertised through YouTube videos offering “free” season passes and “free” versions of Epic’s hit for Android. Downloading the malware required viewers to go through numerous steps, including subscribing to a YouTube channel, being redirected to a different site, and taking a survey.
The videos bore titles such as “New Season 6 Fortnite Hack Cheat Free Download September 2018 / WH / Aimbot/ Undetectable.”, “Fortnite Hack Free Download,” or simply “Fortnite Cheat.” Although YouTube was quick to take down most of the videos, some still managed to get over 120,000 views.
“Once the initial .EXE runs on the target system, it performs some basic enumeration on details specific to the infected computer,” Boyd described the process. “It then attempts to send data [...] to an /index.php file in the Russian Federation.”
Some of the most notable things it takes an interest in are browser session information, cookies, Bitcoin wallets, and also Steam sessions.
The stolen data included information on browser and Steam sessions, cookies, as well as Bitcoin wallets. In addition, the “cheat tool’s” ReadMe file entices players to purchase additional Fortnite cheats for “$80 Bitcoin.”
While the subject of this blog probably isn’t that new, it’s still going to do a fair bit of damage to anyone that runs it. Combining it with the current fever for new Fortnite content is a recipe for stolen data and a lot of cleanup required afterward.
Boyd summarized that the malware is capable of doing ‘a fair bit of damage’ to players who’ve downloaded it.
Read more: https://cryptovest.com/news/crypto-malware-allows-scammers-to-steal-bitcoin-through-fortnite/
Fortnite is one of the most successful contemporary video games, and has attracted over 125 million players as of June 2018. The malware took advantage of the launch of the game’s Sixth Season.
According to research conducted by Malwarebytes Labs, cybercriminals have developed malware disguised as a cheat tool for the popular game. The hack steals user data and bitcoin from Fortnite gamers, and is advertised through YouTube videos offering “free” season passes and “free” versions of Epic’s hit for Android. Downloading the malware required viewers to go through numerous steps, including subscribing to a YouTube channel, being redirected to a different site, and taking a survey.
The videos bore titles such as “New Season 6 Fortnite Hack Cheat Free Download September 2018 / WH / Aimbot/ Undetectable.”, “Fortnite Hack Free Download,” or simply “Fortnite Cheat.” Although YouTube was quick to take down most of the videos, some still managed to get over 120,000 views.
“Offering up a malicious file under the pretense of a cheat is as old school as it gets, but that’s never stopped cybercriminals before,” said Malwarebyte’s lead intelligence analyst Christopher Boyd in a blog post. “In this scenario, would-be cheaters suffer a taste of their own medicine via a daisy chain of clickthroughs and (eventually) some malware as a parting gift.”
Data Vulnerabilities
Malwarebytes detected the tool as ‘Trojan.Malpack’, a generic detection given to suspicious file packages. Upon further research, researchers determined the malware to be a data stealer.“Once the initial .EXE runs on the target system, it performs some basic enumeration on details specific to the infected computer,” Boyd described the process. “It then attempts to send data [...] to an /index.php file in the Russian Federation.”
Some of the most notable things it takes an interest in are browser session information, cookies, Bitcoin wallets, and also Steam sessions.
The stolen data included information on browser and Steam sessions, cookies, as well as Bitcoin wallets. In addition, the “cheat tool’s” ReadMe file entices players to purchase additional Fortnite cheats for “$80 Bitcoin.”
While the subject of this blog probably isn’t that new, it’s still going to do a fair bit of damage to anyone that runs it. Combining it with the current fever for new Fortnite content is a recipe for stolen data and a lot of cleanup required afterward.
Boyd summarized that the malware is capable of doing ‘a fair bit of damage’ to players who’ve downloaded it.
“Given how things up above panned out, we’d advise anyone tempted to cheat to steer well clear of this one,” warned the researcher in his blog post. “Winning is great, but it’s absolutely not worth risking a huge slice of personal information to get the job done.”
Read more: https://cryptovest.com/news/crypto-malware-allows-scammers-to-steal-bitcoin-through-fortnite/
En
los primeros nueve meses del 2018, se calculó que las ganancias por
actividades de minería en la red de Bitcoin alcanzaron los 4,7 millardos
de dólares, una cifra que supera los ingresos de dicha industria en el
2017 por $1,4 millardos. No obstante, por más que las ganancias se han
multiplicado, la rentabilidad de este negocio ha disminuido
considerablemente debido a diversas variables, convirtiéndose en un
negocio viable casi exclusivamente para las grandes empresas mineras.
Según un análisis publicado por Diar, la red de Bitcoin sigue generando un total de 54 millones de bitcoins por mes que suplen a todos los mineros activos de la red;
monedas que han incrementado su precio un 40% en comparación con el
2017. Esto a pesar de la tendencia bajista del criptoactivo
experimentada en 2018, descendiendo a 6.650 dólares por unidad al día de hoy.
Ganancias por minería este 2018 superan en 1,4 millardos las de 2017. Fuente: Diar.
No obstante, por más que el mercado de la minería ha elevado sus ingresos, la
rentabilidad de este negocio sigue siendo el problema principal para
las pequeñas empresas de minería y los mineros individuales. La
tasa récord de hashrate alcanzada por la red en estos últimos meses
tras la entrada de nuevos participantes a la red con equipos más
potentes que los anteriores, aumenta la velocidad en que nuevos bitcoins
son minados y por esta razón es que aumentan las ganancias globales.
Sin embargo, al aumentar el hashrate, aumenta la dificultad de minado,
afectando el rendimiento de los pequeños mineros cuyos equipos mantienen
el mismo poder de procesamiento frente a una dificultad de minado cada
vez mayor.
Es decir, el aumento de la dificultad de minado para
confirmar transacciones en la red, así como los altos costos de
electricidad en la mayoría de los países, hacen que la minería en
mercados minoritarios se haya vuelto casi inviable; una problemática que
ya ha sido discutida sin soluciones aparentes por las entidades
gubernamentales de países como Estados Unidos y Canadá.
Los
altos costos de la electricidad en la mayoría de los países del mundo
hacen que el negocio de la minería no sea rentable para los pequeños
mineros. Fuente. Diar.
Por si fuera poco, en las
zonas donde los costos eléctricos son mucho más bajos —tales como China,
cuyo costo promedio es de 0,08 dólares por Kw/h—, la minería se
complica debido a los altos precios de los equipos de minería, los
alquileres de sitios para su instalación y los salarios para empleados, haciendo cada vez más dificultoso el pequeño emprendimiento.
Un mercado para los grandes
Es
debido a ello que solo las grandes granjas de minería tienen un mercado
asegurado con gran rentabilidad. El análisis de Diar se centró en el
ejemplo del fabricante de equipos de minería chino, Bitmain; el cual,
además de poseer dos de los grupos de minería más grandes de su país con
200 mil unidades de minería activa, las mismas sólo representan un 6%
del poder de hash de la red. Sin embargo, no son su negocio principal.
Para
hacer más rentable su negocio, Bitmain ha centrado su comercio en la
fabricación de mineros a gran escala, negocio que representa el 95% de
sus ganancias netas y el 75% del mercado de dispositivos de minería en
todo el mundo, según informes publicados por la empresa para la IPO que está celebrando en Hong Kong. Este
porcentaje confirma la variabilidad de sus negocios y que la
rentabilidad del mismo no está intrínsecamente relacionado a sus
actividades de minería, sino a la venta de equipos —aunque hoy en día la
empresa ha presentado alarmantes perdidas monetarias debido a baja venta de mineros—.
Este
ejemplo constata que las grandes empresas, que poseen mayor poder
adquisitivo y se han especializado en otras ramas de la industria,
tienen mejor respuesta a la actual problemática de rentabilidad debido a
su buen posicionamiento en el mercado; ganándole así la batalla a los
mineros individuales.
No obstante, Diar también destaca que la minería de grandes empresas sólo representa entre el 50% y el 60% de las ganancias brutas por minería en la red de Bitcoin,
mientras que el restante todavía sigue siendo movilizado por los
pequeños mineros; una proporción que confirma que este mercado tampoco
ha perdido su fuerza en la red.
En este sentido, los analistas
consideran que la reducción de hash no durará mucho tiempo, por lo cual
todavía hay espacio en la industria para que el mercado crezca entre los
grandes mineros, una meta que está siendo perseguida por empresas del
ecosistema por medio del lanzamiento de dispositivos cada vez más especializados.
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Epic Game’s smash
hit Fortnite has become the target of crypto-malware. Russian hackers
have used the popular multiplayer video game to scam players out of
their Bitcoin.
Fortnite is one of the most successful contemporary video games, and has attracted over 125 million players as of June 2018. The malware took advantage of the launch of the game’s Sixth Season.
According to research conducted by Malwarebytes Labs, cybercriminals have developed malware disguised as a cheat tool for the popular game. The hack steals user data and bitcoin from Fortnite gamers, and is advertised through YouTube videos offering “free” season passes and “free” versions of Epic’s hit for Android. Downloading the malware required viewers to go through numerous steps, including subscribing to a YouTube channel, being redirected to a different site, and taking a survey.
The videos bore titles such as “New Season 6 Fortnite Hack Cheat Free Download September 2018 / WH / Aimbot/ Undetectable.”, “Fortnite Hack Free Download,” or simply “Fortnite Cheat.” Although YouTube was quick to take down most of the videos, some still managed to get over 120,000 views.
“Once the initial .EXE runs on the target system, it performs some basic enumeration on details specific to the infected computer,” Boyd described the process. “It then attempts to send data [...] to an /index.php file in the Russian Federation.”
Some of the most notable things it takes an interest in are browser session information, cookies, Bitcoin wallets, and also Steam sessions.
The stolen data included information on browser and Steam sessions, cookies, as well as Bitcoin wallets. In addition, the “cheat tool’s” ReadMe file entices players to purchase additional Fortnite cheats for “$80 Bitcoin.”
While the subject of this blog probably isn’t that new, it’s still going to do a fair bit of damage to anyone that runs it. Combining it with the current fever for new Fortnite content is a recipe for stolen data and a lot of cleanup required afterward.
Boyd summarized that the malware is capable of doing ‘a fair bit of damage’ to players who’ve downloaded it.
Read more: https://cryptovest.com/news/crypto-malware-allows-scammers-to-steal-bitcoin-through-fortnite/
Fortnite is one of the most successful contemporary video games, and has attracted over 125 million players as of June 2018. The malware took advantage of the launch of the game’s Sixth Season.
According to research conducted by Malwarebytes Labs, cybercriminals have developed malware disguised as a cheat tool for the popular game. The hack steals user data and bitcoin from Fortnite gamers, and is advertised through YouTube videos offering “free” season passes and “free” versions of Epic’s hit for Android. Downloading the malware required viewers to go through numerous steps, including subscribing to a YouTube channel, being redirected to a different site, and taking a survey.
The videos bore titles such as “New Season 6 Fortnite Hack Cheat Free Download September 2018 / WH / Aimbot/ Undetectable.”, “Fortnite Hack Free Download,” or simply “Fortnite Cheat.” Although YouTube was quick to take down most of the videos, some still managed to get over 120,000 views.
“Offering up a malicious file under the pretense of a cheat is as old school as it gets, but that’s never stopped cybercriminals before,” said Malwarebyte’s lead intelligence analyst Christopher Boyd in a blog post. “In this scenario, would-be cheaters suffer a taste of their own medicine via a daisy chain of clickthroughs and (eventually) some malware as a parting gift.”
Data Vulnerabilities
Malwarebytes detected the tool as ‘Trojan.Malpack’, a generic detection given to suspicious file packages. Upon further research, researchers determined the malware to be a data stealer.“Once the initial .EXE runs on the target system, it performs some basic enumeration on details specific to the infected computer,” Boyd described the process. “It then attempts to send data [...] to an /index.php file in the Russian Federation.”
Some of the most notable things it takes an interest in are browser session information, cookies, Bitcoin wallets, and also Steam sessions.
The stolen data included information on browser and Steam sessions, cookies, as well as Bitcoin wallets. In addition, the “cheat tool’s” ReadMe file entices players to purchase additional Fortnite cheats for “$80 Bitcoin.”
While the subject of this blog probably isn’t that new, it’s still going to do a fair bit of damage to anyone that runs it. Combining it with the current fever for new Fortnite content is a recipe for stolen data and a lot of cleanup required afterward.
Boyd summarized that the malware is capable of doing ‘a fair bit of damage’ to players who’ve downloaded it.
“Given how things up above panned out, we’d advise anyone tempted to cheat to steer well clear of this one,” warned the researcher in his blog post. “Winning is great, but it’s absolutely not worth risking a huge slice of personal information to get the job done.”
Read more: https://cryptovest.com/news/crypto-malware-allows-scammers-to-steal-bitcoin-through-fortnite/
The popular video game has become the target of Russian hackers looking to scam players out of their BTC.
Read more: https://cryptovest.com/news/crypto-malware-allows-scammers-to-steal-bitcoin-through-fortnite/
Read more: https://cryptovest.com/news/crypto-malware-allows-scammers-to-steal-bitcoin-through-fortnite/
The popular video game has become the target of Russian hackers looking to scam players out of their BTC.
Read more: https://cryptovest.com/news/crypto-malware-allows-scammers-to-steal-bitcoin-through-fortnite/
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