BURST Miner Virus
Cryptocoin miners are part of many trojans. Therefore, AV software often flags them as malicious, because AV software prefers a false positive over a false negative (== Shoot first, ask questions later). Most antivirus programs flag, for example, the popular Bitcoin miner cgminer - because it had some malicious use as part of several large mining botnets. Another thing that raises flags with security software is the fact that miners produce very abnormal patterns of hardware use (high allocation, partially fan access).
That is more of a problem with commercial/professional grade monitoring software or IDS than personal antivirus solutions though. If you want to be sure, get it either from the download area here or look on github. Most (or all?) miners are open source, therefore, you can also get the sourcecode and build it on your system (then you know noone smuggled something into the binary). It does take some work, especially if you never built something from source, but it's quite straightforward and well-documented. Also, a second opinion scan can never hurt - look at virustotal.com (A site that allows you to upload a sample and run it against several AV engines) while you're at it.
I have miner-burst 1.60407 and my miner log is as follow. When tried to down load Burst-miner v1.170820, I got a virus warning. Tried port 80 and does. README.md sMiner - AVX2 BURST MINER (CPU Only) This is just a light version of creepMiner 1.6 and if you are looking for CMAKE support or a miner with a web interface. Dec 17, 2017 FORT BURST 'VIRUS' ROBLOX TRAILER LegitAde. Miner's Tycoon Trailer #1 Official ROBLOX Trailer - Duration: 0:31. LegitAde 17,312 views.
If your AV is the only one flagging it, it is largely a false-positive (on the other hand, if your AV is the only one that does NOT, your AV is probably junk). And if you want a pentester's two cents, AV evasion is kids' play anyway, at least for a professional penetration tester and on small scale. That's one of the downsides of strong cryptography. But I digress. Build it from source if you wanna be sure, and/or run it through a second opinion scanner.
Willie Sutton, the famous bank robber, once supposedly said he held up banks 'because that's where the money is.' Today, the money is in Bitcoin, a virtual currency with a skyrocketing value. And that value has caught the attention of today's digital bank robbers -- hackers. Over the past week, hackers have stolen bitcoins from digital wallets and hijacked computers to create new bitcoins -- the equivalent of minting money. But hackers have also found a way to bring financial ruin to most everyone involved in the Bitcoin craze.
They have shut down sites where bitcoins are exchanged for cash, creating a panic that causes values to plummet, then buying up cheap bitcoins and profiting when the currency rebounds. 'Attackers try to exploit any system where they think they can profit and get away with it, whether that is robbing banks, stealing online banking credentials, or attacking a Bitcoin exchange,' Gavin Andresen, chief scientist at the Bitcoin Foundation, a nonprofit organization that works to standardize and promote the digital currency, said in an email. Bitcoin is a virtual currency that only exists online. It is not backed by a central bank or government, and its value is based on the confidence of its users.
People buy bitcoins with cash; they use them to trade goods; and they earn more bitcoins by solving complex mathematical problems. Some are attracted to the currency's anonymity, which allows them to buy drugs or engage in online gambling without being tracked.
Others like the idea of cutting financial systems out of the equation. Either way, some Bitcoin owners have become very wealthy, creating a few so-called But hackers could also burst the Bitcoin bubble with the click of a mouse. Last week, hackers attacked Mt. Gox, the most popular Bitcoin exchange, taking the site offline by flooding its servers with traffic, a technique used recently to also attack traditional financial institutions. As news spread, Bitcoin values, Mt. Gox's operators said the attack may have been motivated by hackers trying to prompt 'panic selling' -- buying up cheap bitcoins after creating hysteria, then waiting for the currency's value to recover. 'Repeat this two or three times like we saw over the past few days, and they profit,' the site's operators said.
The recent hack was the latest in a that have sent the market into tumult. In 2011, Mt.Gox temporarily suspended operations after a hacker compromised a user's account and sold his bitcoins. After the hack, the value of Bitcoin sunk from $17 to pennies 'in a matter of minutes,' Hackers have also targeted services that allow users to store their bitcoins.
Last week, Instawallet suspended its service indefinitely after being hacked., the company told users to submit claims to recover their money. HTMLCOIN HTML Mining Power. Bitcon wallets are vulnerable because they rely on private keys. If somebody steals your private keys, they can steal all your bitcoins, Andresen said. If those keys are on a computer and the computer becomes infected with malware, 'you're in trouble,' he said.
'Even if you encrypt your wallet with a passphrase, the malware can lie in wait and steal your wallet the first time you go to spend some bitcoins and type your passphrase,' Andresen said. And while traditional banks typically refund customers whose accounts are hacked, Bitcoin hacking victims have no recourse. 'Once a Bitcoin is stolen, it's gone. There's no way to get it back,' said Richard Henderson, security strategist and threat researcher for Fortinet’s FortiGuard Labs. Andresen said researchers are working to make Bitcoin wallets more secure.
They are creating hardware wallets that can't be infected with malware and developing a system of storing keys on different devices, such as a computer and a mobile phone, he said. Meanwhile, hackers have started using botnets, or networks of infected computers, to solve complex mathematical problems and be awarded with new bitcoins, according to researchers at On Wednesday, the value of a Bitcoin rose as high as $260 before falling to about $130. As long as Bitcoin values continue to fluctuate, hackers will likely increase their attacks, Henderson said. 'It would be silly for them not to,' Henderson said. 'It's easy pickings.'