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New Malware Attacks Hold ASIC Miners to Ransom - by Jamie Redman

Thu Jan 24, 2019 8:26 pm

New Malware Attacks Hold ASIC Miners to Ransom
news.bitcoin.com
by Jamie Redman
January 24, 2019

Excerpt:

According to reports from cybersecurity researchers, there’s a new ransomware virus on the loose that’s targeting bitcoin miners. A file locking program called H-Ant has allegedly infected certain Antminer models in China and if the ransom is not paid the software aims to destroy the infected machine.

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