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Server ran crypto mining malware for a year
Philipp Keller found his server had been running a crypto miner for a year while checking PHP vulnerabilities.
Key points
- @philkellr found a crypto miner running on his server for a year while checking for PHP vulnerabilities.
- @notthreadguy's interview with @tayvano_ covers how bad the PHP bug is (0:37), that PHP is 70% of the internet (2:33), and hardware 2FA on everything (27:02).
- The interview also covers a private key that was just "4" (6:59), Cloudflare saving the internet (17:04), the Railway hack draining wallets (18:49), and that Monero & Zcash are most hardened (21:07).
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Reaction on X: Most replies joke about the miner, with users quipping about earning from it themselves or their own miners stopping; one shares a similar experience of rebuilding a server overnight. One reply asks how the miner got in, and the original poster did not respond.
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