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[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Either that or it's mining crypto

[–] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Crypto mining would be symmetrical up/down though. This is only a small amount of data downloaded, and a huge amount uploaded. That looks more like a botnet attack, where an attacker hacked the machine and pointed it at a target, then just left it to run.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago

Imagine the poor bastard who gets arrested for their washing machine ddos'ing people.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago

In and out is not high in crypto mining. It's mostly a cpu/power hog.