[opendtv] Infecting DVRs with Bitcoin-mining malware even easier than you suspected
- From: Monty Solomon <monty@xxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 07:50:50 -0400
Infecting DVRs with Bitcoin-mining malware even easier than you suspected
It took just a day for the Internet-connected device to be under
attackers' spell.
by Dan Goodin
May 5 2014
Ars Technica
It took just one day for a low-end, Internet-connected digital video
recorder to become infected with malware that surreptitiously mined
Bitcoins on behalf of the quick-moving attackers.
The feat, documented in a blog post published Monday by researchers
at the security-training outfit Sans Institute, was all the more
impressive because the DVR contained no interface for downloading
software from the Internet. The lack of a Wget, ftp, or kermit
application posed little challenge for the attackers. To work around
the limitation, the miscreants used a series of Unix commands that
effectively uploaded and executed a Wget package and then used it to
retrieve the Bitcoin miner from an Internet-connected server.
...
http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/05/infecting-dvrs-with-bitcoin-mining-malware-even-easier-you-suspected/
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