GitHub investigating crypto-mining campaign abusing its server infrastructure

Re:GitHub investigating crypto-mining campaign abusing its s... by vntok on Saturday April 03, 2021 @05:54AM (#26679659)

So if you only ban half of illegitimate accounts once a week, does this mean I just need to launch my mining code registration scripts also once a week, ideally just after I see some of my accounts have been banned?

And doing this will get me a full week's of free mining on half my miners (if I'm the only one in the world pursuing this strategy) or most of my miners if the banning campaign is capped and also hits other abusers? It sounds like a great deal, honestly.

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Re:GitHub investigating crypto-mining campaign abusing its s... by londons_explore on Saturday April 03, 2021 @08:59AM (#26680705)

For most places you can get free compute power, a week's mining revenue might only be a few cents.

As long as the account sign-up process requires a captcha or phone number for the most spam-like signups, you'll keep their profits low enough to deter most people.

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