New Favorite of Hackers; CPU Mining

CPU mining malware increased sixfold in the first eight months of 2017, according to a new report from IBM X-Force. As CCN reported, the number of computers infected with cryptocurrency mining malware has been increasing, and it’s almost nearing 2 million in 2017 alone.

However, the number of computers infected with CPU mining malware (bad, virus software) has increased sixfold this year, far exceeding the overall rate of increase in infections.

CPU in general mining is referred to as legacy technology and has been replaced by more powerful GPU and ASIC miners.. However, IBM X-Force threat intelligence services detected a significant increase in CPU mining infected computers in 2017.

The report reveals that cyber-attackers are driven by the high return on mining; Because CPU mining is not valuable on an individual level, hackers frequently check for botnets that contain thousands of infected computers. (What’s wrong with one hand, two hands have a voice)

Since they do not have any electricity and hardware costs, the more computers they get, the more profit they make. According to the research, the X-Force team found that with a standard Intel i5-6500 quad-core processor running an Ubuntu server, you can make about $2.35 per month.

Most of the attacks were deployed using steganography, a data hiding application to image files. After hiding the malware in a fake image file, hackers placed them on compromised web servers. He noted that most security attacks exploit unforgivable conditions, such as the failure to validate input fields in web applications.

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