{"id":80974,"date":"2023-06-29T17:39:42","date_gmt":"2023-06-29T14:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=80974"},"modified":"2025-09-11T20:10:40","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T17:10:40","slug":"in-russia-15000-asic-miners-were-hijacked-under-the-guise-of-an-offer-from-rushydro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/in-russia-15000-asic-miners-were-hijacked-under-the-guise-of-an-offer-from-rushydro\/","title":{"rendered":"In Russia, 15,000 ASIC miners were hijacked under the guise of an offer from RusHydro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fraudsters posing as employees of the energy holding RusHydro are sending miners commercial proposals to place equipment at a number of hydroelectric stations. This was reported by <a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.rbc.ru\/crypto\/news\/649d7d539a794707eb1b2540\\\">\u00ab\u0420\u0411\u041a-\u041a\u0440\u0438\u043f\u0442\u043e\u00bb<\/a> to the <span data-descr=\\\"Russian Association of Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain\\\" class=\\\"old_tooltip\\\">RAKIB<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>According to association representatives, this scheme has already resulted in the theft of more than 15,000 mining devices this year.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>RusHydro confirmed a mass scam outreach on social networks and Telegram channels using the group\u2019s branding and a similar email address. Company representatives <a href=\\\"https:\/\/rushydro.ru\/form\/vnimanie-moshenniki\/\\\">confirmed<\/a> not to engage in correspondence with the scammers.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/bitriver-russia-rises-to-second-place-in-cryptocurrency-mining\">BitRiver&#8217;s counts<\/a>, the data-centre operator, Russia, in the first quarter of 2023 for the first time ranked second globally in terms of mining capacity deployed \u2014 1 GW.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, the Finance Ministry estimated annual cryptocurrency mining in the country at around $4 billion. Potentially the industry could bring about <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/russian-miners-profits-estimated-at-about-100-billion-rubles-a-year\">20 million rubles a year<\/a> to the state treasury, according to the ministry.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>A bill regulating the sector was registered in the Russian State Duma <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/in-russia-lawmakers-propose-banning-cryptocurrency-circulation-and-requiring-tax-reporting-by-miners\">since mid-November 2022<\/a>. It obliges individuals and legal entities to report mined cryptocurrencies to the tax authorities, with the address to which the proceeds are credited. Its adoption is expected in 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fraudsters posing as RusHydro employees are sending miners commercial offers to install equipment at several hydroelectric plants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80975,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1137,27,1246],"class_list":["post-80974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cryptocurrency-mining","tag-russia","tag-scammers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"51","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80976,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80974\/revisions\/80976"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}