Public firmware artifacts from major ASIC miners contain sufficient information to reconstruct architectures and enable realistic large-scale attacks including phishing and protocol exploitation.
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Firmware Distribution as Attack Surface: A Security Study of ASIC Cryptocurrency Miners
Public firmware artifacts from major ASIC miners contain sufficient information to reconstruct architectures and enable realistic large-scale attacks including phishing and protocol exploitation.