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: http://blog.zorinaq.com/?e=67 http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/03/02/linode_bitcoin_heist... 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?I like to see it as ISPs and cloud providers increasing their security and patching vulnerabilities thanks to Bitcoin's growing adoption :)