Showing posts with label botnet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label botnet. Show all posts

Monday, April 17, 2017

Mirai, Bitcoin, and numeracy

Newsweek (the magazine famous for outing the real Satoshi Nakamoto) has a story about how a variant of the Mirai botnet is mining bitcoin. They fail to run the numbers.

The story repeats a claim by Mcafee that 2.5 million devices were infected with Mirai at some point in 2016. If they were all mining bitcoin, how much money would the hackers be earning?