XMRig | Cyber Security Review

On the trail of the XMRig miner

Posted onOctober 22, 2020October 23, 2020

As protection methods improve, the developers of miners have had to enhance their own creations, often turning to non-trivial solutions. Several such solutions (previously unseen by us) were detected during our analysis of the open source miner XMRig. How it Read More …

Old Tools for New Money: URL Spreading Shellbot and XMRig Using 17-year old XHide

Posted onJuly 19, 2019July 23, 2019

One of our honeypots detected a threat that propagates by scanning for open ports and brute forcing weak credentials, installing a Monero cryptocurrency miner and a Perl-based IRC backdoor as the final payload. The miner process is hidden using XHide Read More …