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Re:GitHub investigating crypto-mining campaign abusing its s... by plasma on Saturday April 03, 2021 @06:35AM (#26679858)
Wonder if you could check the repeated use of cryptographic functions in a process as a sign.
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Re:GitHub investigating crypto-mining campaign abusing its s... by nostoc on Saturday April 03, 2021 @09:01AM (#26680718)
As a bonus, you'll also see ransomwares, disk encryption software, http servers, browsers...

And what if the miner uses it's own crypto lib, and doesn't rely on the OS crypto API?

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Re:GitHub investigating crypto-mining campaign abusing its s... by ant6n on Saturday April 03, 2021 @08:15AM (#26680437)
Do miners heavily rely on crush instructions? Then it could perhaps be possible to reduce the performance of these instructions 100-fold, making mining useless but other code still run.
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