NiceHash: STOP using Phoenix miner immediately!

The world’s leading cryptocurrency platform for mining and trading made an announcement on its blog yesterday evening. It indicates that it has come to its attention that Phoenix miner is no longer available for download from its original download location. Control shasum from new download locations does not match the value published by the developer on his channel. This brings the possibility that the Phoenix miner's author wants to cover its tracks and disappear or even do something malicious.

NiceHash has immediately disabled Phoenix miner from NiceHash Miner, and it advises everyone to stop using Phoenix miner immediately.

It said Phoenix miner is a mining software from an anonymous author. It is not digitally signed, and no one knows who the creator is. This brings serious risk to anyone who will continue to use this software.

And NiceHash warns that "If you have used PhoenixMiner on your PC, which contains any sensitive information or information of any value such as logins to various services (accesses to bank accounts, PayPal, Gmail, Facebook, Instagram, Dropbox, Google Drive, etc. ) and especially if your PC contains any private keys for any cryptocurrency wallet, directly or indirectly (through online wallet provider) consider them compromised."

It advised miners who have used Phoenix Miner to reinstall OS, change all passwords and activate 2FA where possible, and If any cryptocurrency wallets were used on the same PC, move funds to other wallets immediately.

by Sara Zhang

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