How To Use Blockchains for Spreading VIRUSES?
A Study on Use of Distributed Systems in Malware Deployment
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7 min readMay 26, 2019
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I have been in the Blockchain world since 2017. One of the questions that stuck in my mind(as a newbie in 2017) was
Blockchains, like Bitcoin, are public, right? There are thousands of nodes, broadcasting messages to the network…This is a really promising situation for any hacker. Can we leverage these distributed Systems to infect the whole network?
A few months later, after understanding how these systems work, I finally started getting the answers.
In this article, we will see:
- Why it’s Hard to Infect a…
