Hello, dear Steemians!
The trouble does not come alone, and not only that with the current rate of # Bitcoin, the miners-earners barely survive, so to them the ransomware viruses also get into the equipment.
It happens like this: the malicious code of the #hAnt virus penetrates ASIC miners, and is embedded in the firmware to speed up the equipment from 13.5 to 18 Th / s, and then changes the addresses of the # bitcoin wallets to which the mined bitcoins are sent.
The process does not stop there, and the virus, spreading through the system, gradually completely takes control over it. It ends with the fact that the virus begins to demand a ransom in the amount of 10 #btc, threatening to overclock the equipment to such an extent that it will fail.
And since such equipment is heated very much, then the whole thing will end up with a real fire.
One of the affected owners of a Chinese mining farm for 4,000 cars in one night lost $ 8,000. And to restore the work of the equipment, it needs to do a complete reinstallation of the software on it, which is quite time consuming.
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