Security of Cryptocurrency wallets/mining - Ashwath Kumar
Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ICt6NC8XSa7Je84bWZ51VV2AeItEwTHRugZH0IpOm9U/edit?usp=sharing
Cryptocurrency has become a major investment area for investors given the recent boom in prices of coins like Bitcoin, Ethereum etc. There are a couple of options to store cryptocurrencies like exchange, offline wallet, physical wallet etc.
With the sudden surge of cryptocurrency prices, it is has become a playground for the hackers as well.
Ashwath currently works as an Associate Principal Consultant at Cigital Asia Pvt Ltd. He has previously worked as a Security Engineer at Microsoft Corp. His interests are in Red teaming, Application security, Threat Modeling and Cloud Security. He has presented at Nullcon, C0C0N and has written articles for a Digital Forensics magazine.
Ashwath’s interest in cryptocurrency started in 2009 where he tried to mine bitcoin using his laptop. He accumulated 0.05 btc (~$800) and thought it was a waste of time & deleted the wallet because it was slowing his laptop down. Ashwath has invested small amounts in bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies to understand the working of the whole ecosystem. Ashwath has a mining rig with 6 AMD RX 580 graphics cards. In the process, he has tried multiple mining pools (nanopool, noobpool, dwarfpool, Nicehash etc.). He lost around $100 (0.0067 btc) because of the Nicehash hack on Dec 7 2017. He has worked on the security architecture and has performed a penetration test on a blockchain based product and a couple implementations for companies accepting bitcoin payments.
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