Crypto miner process observed

Classification:

attack

Tactic:

TA0040-impact

Technique:

T1496-resource-hijacking

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Goal

Detect when a process launches with arguments associated with cryptocurrency miners.

Strategy

Monitor systems process and analyze command-line arguments to identify specific patterns or arguments commonly associated with cryptocurrency mining software. Miners are often executed with unique arguments such as --donate-level.

Requires Agent version 7.28 or later