Still all this fuss with contamination and extraction by using the cryptocurrency looked like something not very serious. Cyber criminals have introduced a program-miners on various sites, programs, or install them on your PC, after which they began regularly work for the good of another uncle, earning the attacker a coin or two. Competition among the fans to enrich themselves at the expense of others is becoming more competition among “black miners” grows, so has the need to “remove” the competition. And now malicious programs are created for covert mining of cryptocurrencies began to “wet” each other.
The story is very reminiscent of a parody of a crime Thriller, but that’s life. Experts on cyber security have noted that malicious miners can now kill the processes running programs competing in memory. This allows them to receive full and sole control over all the resources of the computer.
Xavier Martens, an expert on cyber security of ICS Sans, explained that they studied the modified miner almost did not differ from “colleagues on the dangerous business”. The only exception was a feature Kill List, allowing malware to shut down the competition.
The Creator of “the killer” has taken this step due to the fact that finding the miner is not infected with a computer more difficult, so, introducing his creation to a new function, he provided him with a substantial advantage.
Martens is confident that the author of the miner-killer did a great job, the results of which can be used for the development of antiviral software that allows you to effectively and immediately “kill” all applications, mining cryptocurrency on other people’s computers without user’s knowledge.
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Viruses-the miners have learned to eliminate the competition
Vyacheslav Larionov