Annual Protest to ‘Fight Krebs’ Raises €150K+
Summary: Members of the German image-hosting forum pr0gramm[.]com are holding their third annual "Krebsaction" fundraiser, donating to cancer research groups in protest of KrebsOnSecurity's 2018 story identifying the forum's founders as the creators of the Coinhive cryptocurrency mining service. This year's campaign, started roughly three days before the March 30, 2020 post, had raised more than 150,000 euros (~$165,000), primarily for the German blood-cancer nonprofit DKMS, after earlier editions raised more than a quarter-million dollars and almost $300,000.
What you should know: The forum's members are directing six-figure sums to cancer research as a rebuke to a journalist for publishing research that was already publicly available online, and this year they are also requiring proof of volunteer work during the COVID-19 pandemic. For security leaders, it is a reminder that naming the people behind an abused service can trigger a sustained, well-funded backlash that outlasts the service itself.
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