Invisible resource thieves: The increasing threat of cryptocurrency miners[Microsoft]

ronjor · Mar 13, 2018

March 13, 2018

The surge in Bitcoin prices has driven widescale interest in cryptocurrencies. While the future of digital currencies is uncertain, they are shaking up the cybersecurity landscape as they continue to influence the intent and nature of attacks.
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Dermot7 · Jun 11, 2018

By Josh Grunzweig
June 11, 2018 at 1:00 PM

Over the past few months, I’ve found myself continually being in the position of researching a new threat or campaign that results in the delivery of a cryptocurrency miner. As time progressed, I began asking myself it this was a coincidence, or part of a much larger trend. As such, I began to investigate how many cryptocurrency miners have historically been identified within Palo Alto Network’s WildFire platform. In doing so, I found a radical upward trend. The graph below represents how many new cryptocurrency mining malware samples have been identified over time.
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https://researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com/2018/06/unit42-rise-cryptocurrency-miners/

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