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Microsoft Security

Hardware-based threat defense against increasingly complex cryptojackers

August 18, 2022 admin coin miners, cryptojacker, Cryptojacking, cybersecurity, hardware-based threat defense, Microsoft security intelligence

Credit to Author: Microsoft 365 Defender Threat Intelligence Team| Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2022 17:00:00 +0000

To provide advanced protection against increasingly complex and evasive cryptojackers, Microsoft Defender Antivirus integrates with Intel® Threat Detection Technology (TDT) that applies machine learning to low-level CPU telemetry in detecting cryptojackers, even when the malware is obfuscated and can evade security tools.

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MalwareBytes Security

The state of malicious cryptomining

February 26, 2018 admin coin miners, coin-have, Coinbase, coinhive, crypto-loot, cryptocurrency, cryptomining, cybercrime, drive-by, malvertising, malware, monero

Credit to Author: Jérôme Segura| Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2018 16:08:03 +0000

From malware coin miners to drive-by mining, we review the state of malicious cryptomining in the past few months by looking at the most notable incidents and our own telemetry stats.

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Cybercrime

Tags: coin miners coin-have Coinbase coinhive crypto-loot cryptocurrency cryptomining drive-by malvertising malware monero

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MalwareBytes Security

Bogus hack apps hack users back for cryptocash

February 7, 2018 admin Adware, Android, coin hive, coin miners, cybercrime, hack, hack app, Mobile, Trojan

Credit to Author: Nathan Collier| Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2018 19:30:00 +0000

Recently, we discovered a gold mine of fake hack apps that mine for Monero cryptocurrency and serve up annoying adware.

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Tags: adware Android coin hive coin miners hack hack app Mobile trojan

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MalwareBytes Security

A coin miner with a “Heaven’s Gate”

January 17, 2018 admin coin miners, Heaven's Gate, malware, malware analysis, Threat analysis

Credit to Author: hasherezade| Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2018 16:00:00 +0000

The Heaven’s Gate technique has been around since 2009. But now coin miners are using it to maximize their performance in the target architecture.

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Tags: coin miners Heaven’s Gate malware analysis

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