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Normally, when KrebsOnSecurity publishes a piece that sheds light on a corner of the Internet that would rather remain in the shadows, the response is as predictable as it is swift: Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on this site combined with threats of physical violence and harm from anonymous users on Twitter and other social networks. While this site did receive several small DDoS attacks this week - and more than a few anonymous threats of physical violence and even death related to the Coinhive story - the response from pr0gramm members has been remarkably positive overall. The pr0gramm community quickly seized on the fact that my last name - Krebs - means "crab" and "cancer" in German. Apparently urged by one of the pr0gramm founders named in the story to express their anger in "objective and polite" ways, several pr0gramm members took to donating money to the Deutsche Krebshilfe (German Cancer Aid/DKMS) Web site as a way to display their unity and numbers. The protest (pr0test?) soon caught on in the Twitter hashtag "#KrebsIsCancer," promoted and re-tweeted heavily by pr0gramm members as a means to "Fight Krebs" or fight cancer. According to a statement on DKMS's Web site, the KrebsIsCancer campaign involved donations from more than 8,300 people totaling 207,500 euros (~USD $256,000). Update, 2:46 p.m. ET: Updated donation figures per statement posted today on DKMS site.

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