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$83k in bitcoins ‘stolen’ through BGP hijack
Short-lived network changes used to make miners connect to rogue pool. Researchers at Dell SecureWorks have discovered an operation that used BGP hijacking to force bitcoin miners to connect to mining pools under the attackers’ control, thus gaining them a lot of extra mining power and, ultimately, about $83,000 in bitcoins. New bitcoins are constantly…