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1 week agoResearchers Find Way to Shut Down Cryptominer Campaigns Using Bad Shares and XMRogue
By connecting to a malicious proxy as a miner, we can submit invalid mining job results - bad shares - that will bypass the proxy validation and will be submitted to the pool. Consecutive bad shares will eventually get the proxy banned, effectively halting mining operations for the entire cryptomining botnet.
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