29 Dec
2016
29 Dec
'16
9:45 a.m.
On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 04:32:58AM -0500, John Newman wrote:
Are there stats about bitcoin fraud vs traditional financial fraud? Decentralization complicates things. Especially about fraud done by malware.
I don't have stats but i know that fucking worm PhotoMiner (a monero miner propagated through FTP amongst other methods) is endemic... There are a lot of dumb shits mining monero without knowing it.
I still see it banging on the door of FTP server trying to upload itself (and failing and getting blocked) from at least a few hosts every day.
Mining bitcoins without knowing it is essentially non-issue compared to stealing the bitcoin wallet or abusing some subtle ``feature" of Bitcoin.