Hacker Redirects Traffic From 19 Internet Providers to Steal Bitcoins
I work in InfoSec and it is mind-boggling to see the sophistication levels of some of the Bitcoin heists, like this BGP incident. When was the last time you saw a BGP attack? 99.9% of real-world attacks don't even bother targetting such a core routing service. Another example: in March 2012, internal Linode management infrastructure was compromised to steal 47k BTC: <a href="http://blog.zorinaq.com/?e=67" rel="nofollow">http://blog.zorinaq.com/?e=67</a> <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/03/02/linode_bitcoin_heist/" rel="nofollow">http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/03/02/linode_bitcoin_heist...</a> This means attackers had effectively root access to any Linode's customers' VM! When was the last time you saw an entire cloud provider environment being compromised?<p>I like to see it as ISPs and cloud providers increasing their security and patching vulnerabilities thanks to Bitcoin's growing adoption :)