Pirate Mining Danger on Android Phones

The type of mining, which is illegal and pirated, or, from your point of view, is called a creative advertising alternative, has seen a huge increase lately.

The Pirate Bay and Websites like Showtime were caught running a Javascript program that mined them using visitors’ computers.

This dirty side of mining has become a huge market today.. Nowadays, a Russian application developer has placed a cryptocurrency mining code at the bottom of the puzzle game he has prepared.. This app is capable of potentially exploiting millions of Android devices to mine cryptocurrencies.

A legit “Botnet”

Russian developer Alexey Khripkov has created his app as “legal”. described as “a botnet”. From this it can be deduced that Google Play is a game-looking mining program.

Botnet is a hacked computer community to combine processing power by running it for a single purpose. is trying. For example, DDoS attacks on websites are also a derivative of Botnet.

Khripkov’s application is a very popular game on Google Play.. The goal is to generate income with a cryptocurrency mining program that uses the processing power of Android phones on which this game is installed.

Plans Failed

Although this hacker mining method was cleverly planned and implemented by Khripkov, it is no longer available. cannot continue. Several antivirus companies decided that the mining was malicious and started blocking the Puzzle game.. Cybersecurity researchers at Ixia even wrote a blog post about Khripkov’s app. This seems to have discouraged the developer from the “botnet is legal” point of view.

Khripkov said in a statement that the “feature” has been removed from the app.. Instead, Khripkov, who has developed another application called “Reward Digger”, promises users in-game bonuses in exchange for the processing power of their phones.

Completely Legal(?)

Thoughts on this type of mining are completely divided.. Some think it’s malicious and shouldn’t be allowed, while others say it’s a healthy substitute for ads.

Some developers are turning to running Javascript code in complete privacy.. One of the biggest names in the mining industry, CoinHive, invites developers to be transparent.

Yuchen Zhou of security company Palo Alto strong> made the following statement:

“The use of CoinHive or similar mining services does not mean that it is malicious. The worst thing is the sites that do it illegally.”

Alexey Khripkov explains his position on the subject as follows:

“I don’t work on evil things like illegal botnets. You can control mining in the application I prepared; If you accept, you leave it open, if you don’t, you close it.. Users can decide on mining, so this is perfectly legal.”

“Users choose a mining level in terms of processing capacity received, then plug their devices into charge. The app waits for 100% to be fully charged before starting mining. If the phone’s battery runs out or gets too hot, mining operations are automatically stopped.”

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