Topic: How to start a hidden miner? (Read 1436 times)
Are they domain joined? Maybe you can push something out via GPO? Task schedular seems to be your best bet, start maybe 6pm and end at 8am. godspeed OP
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run exe as service
for windows that is, and having admin rights. Also make sure you allow it through the firewall.
Click the Start button and type firewall
then select windows defender firewall WITH Advanced Security.
in the left hand columns you can pick inbound and outbound.
If you really own the PC's you could set up SSH and/or API and allow inbound.
If you don't own them, you'll just let the admin know where/who you are
run exe as service
for windows that is, and having admin rights. Also make sure you allow it through the firewall.
Click the Start button and type firewall
then select windows defender firewall WITH Advanced Security.
in the left hand columns you can pick inbound and outbound.
If you really own the PC's you could set up SSH and/or API and allow inbound.
If you don't own them, you'll just let the admin know where/who you are
Usually such miners use hackers.
I am against such methods of earning at the expense of other people and organizations.
I am against such methods of earning at the expense of other people and organizations.
Installing a mining program requires an admin rights, do you have these rights? And are you sure that every windows profile (you are talking about company) will run your program automatically? 
You would really require admin rights but basing on his statement he do able to set-it up on his own office pc so it would be possible to be put up on other pc's as well yet majority of them would have the same set-up since this is a company this isnt a personal pc on your own that you can freely set personal passwords or customize it.Starting a hidden miner?It wont really be worth if the company caught you,those small satoshi earnings wont be enough for you to bail when you are imprisoned. We have a lot of windows computers in the company I own. All of them with expensive and fast CPUs. Already did some calculations and even with a low CPU usage (0 impact in the tasks we need to do) It would be very profitable to mine!
I want to configure some cryptonight miners running in background (no screen, no terminal) so employees won't get worried about "that weird screen".
I tried autorunning a .bat with this code: START /B xmr-stak-cpu
However It's not what I wanted and reopens the miner immediately.
Any ideas about how should I do this?
Thanks in advance
I want to configure some cryptonight miners running in background (no screen, no terminal) so employees won't get worried about "that weird screen".
I tried autorunning a .bat with this code: START /B xmr-stak-cpu
However It's not what I wanted and reopens the miner immediately.
Any ideas about how should I do this?
Thanks in advance
Yes, then you come to the store to buy a computer. And there such guys mine on them killing all the processes. Great idea. Let the office go broke. Let employees work slower. The main thing to install on account computers. What would all the bulhattery burn in case of anything)
You'll want to properly test this when there are no employees present - one thing to consider is that when ALL computer systems are running and drawing a lot of power depending on how your building was wired up this may present power draw issues... It happened to me where I would pop the breakers and the whole floor would go down... pretty embarassing to deal with.
Another thing to consider is the heat - if the room heats up significantly when the equipment is mining then it's best to have everything power down several hours before employees return otherwise you may get complaints.
Another thing to consider is the heat - if the room heats up significantly when the equipment is mining then it's best to have everything power down several hours before employees return otherwise you may get complaints.
Installing a mining program requires an admin rights, do you have these rights? And are you sure that every windows profile (you are talking about company) will run your program automatically?
Good thinking! i am about to start the same thing. as far as i worked out, you have to figure out general awareness in your company about this subject. some may don't even know what it is. then you should to work with antivirus so it won't destroy your plans and then give to the files different names so even if it's detected it wouldn't be considered as suspicious.
Jesus! can everyone just shut up about this now.
The OP asked a question, and it has been answered. The OP did not ask for peoples legal or moral opinions on this subject.
There are lots of legitimate reasons why you wouldn't want a console showing on the desktop.
So can everyone stop making assumptions and stick to answering questions with based on your technical knowledge and not what the ten commandments say.
Maybe TS got an answer to his question, but that does not mean that people can not continue to debate on this topic. If we have this theme the there is no sense create themes with similar specificity. We can talk about it here. The OP asked a question, and it has been answered. The OP did not ask for peoples legal or moral opinions on this subject.
There are lots of legitimate reasons why you wouldn't want a console showing on the desktop.
So can everyone stop making assumptions and stick to answering questions with based on your technical knowledge and not what the ten commandments say.
Jesus! can everyone just shut up about this now.
The OP asked a question, and it has been answered. The OP did not ask for peoples legal or moral opinions on this subject.
There are lots of legitimate reasons why you wouldn't want a console showing on the desktop.
So can everyone stop making assumptions and stick to answering questions with based on your technical knowledge and not what the ten commandments say.
The OP asked a question, and it has been answered. The OP did not ask for peoples legal or moral opinions on this subject.
There are lots of legitimate reasons why you wouldn't want a console showing on the desktop.
So can everyone stop making assumptions and stick to answering questions with based on your technical knowledge and not what the ten commandments say.
It maybe to early to conclude any hypothesis or scenario but I hope the OP might appreciate any unsolicited advice he / she could get from the community that could possibly save him / her from any trouble. I think we as members of this community should have a little bit of social responsibility and should give importance to the welfare of others too. Imho.
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One hint on how fast detection happens on a miner in a business that is properly secured is an alert happens within 5 seconds of the miner being attempted to execute and the miner is not able to execute, so you lose your job over zero profit. Considering the cost of the job loss the math turns to a loss for attempting this at work.
you clearly overlooked the fact that a vpn is a typical solution to staying anonymous.... [and i'm not here to nitpick on hypotheticals]I know this works even today, because I installed several miners at [insert silicon valley corporate company's name here] on a rack designated for his department.... and they have strict rules as well.
Check task manager
anyone don't know what task manager program running when have hidden job working by miner. when miner work with web, we can look at task manager process mozilla or chrome cpu high over 90-100%. there is hard for looking for hidden software mining name when not running on browser and task manager prosesing not detected
One hint on how fast detection happens on a miner in a business that is properly secured is an alert happens within 5 seconds of the miner being attempted to execute and the miner is not able to execute, so you lose your job over zero profit. Considering the cost of the job loss the math turns to a loss for attempting this at work.
Do not forget that as soon they will realize that, you can get into big troubles - it is a crime and you can go to the jail. Would you risk it for few dollars?
Jesus! can everyone just shut up about this now.
The OP asked a question, and it has been answered. The OP did not ask for peoples legal or moral opinions on this subject.
There are lots of legitimate reasons why you wouldn't want a console showing on the desktop.
So can everyone stop making assumptions and stick to answering questions with based on your technical knowledge and not what the ten commandments say.
The OP asked a question, and it has been answered. The OP did not ask for peoples legal or moral opinions on this subject.
There are lots of legitimate reasons why you wouldn't want a console showing on the desktop.
So can everyone stop making assumptions and stick to answering questions with based on your technical knowledge and not what the ten commandments say.
If you are truly the owner of that company, I suggest you buy a mining rig which is often more profitable that cpu's. If not, I wouldn't advice anything like this activity since it could lead you to severe consequences like losing your job! Any unauthorized crypto mining will generate huge costs to your company's electric bill and in effect is a pilferage and that you could cause harm to your company which could put you on a legal predicament that greatly overshadows the benefits of mining. Imho.
I do not know how profitable this is at the moment, but I have seen how popular mining has been over time. I would have launched this with mining the veil coin but do not know if anyone is currently doing that here
You should calculate the risk involved in getting caught vs the amount of extra money you will make. From cpu mining it won't buy you a lambo so is it worth risking your career?
A hidden miner installed by an employee can be considered theft. If your company security team knows anything about security they would know how to block this and locate who installed it. This could be blocked down at the endpoint or at the network level. Definitely not worth the risk of getting fired for a few dollars.
Well said! This is really considered as theft yet you dont have any permissions on installing up these hidden miners.We cant still consider to be a penny income yet if the companydo have lots of pc's then the amount would be recognizable but well on exchange you are risking up your work/job once caught.
In general, installation in the workplace is definitely not good idea, if the topstarter thinks about it - please think again
Yes, it is really ideal to run up hidden miners but if the owner itself doesnt have any awareness on what you are doing then its completely theft or simply illegal.
I wont really risk my job for this kind of thing if were on the shoes of OP.
Guys, I have the opposite problem, please tell me how to detect a hidden miner. Recently, my work computer has become noticeably slower. It seems to me that our IT specialist decided to earn extra money and did not inform anyone))
Check task manager
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