Cryptocurrency mining
Cryptojacking has become a very common threat to organizations. A lot of malware does not attempt to perform a data breach and instead looks to acquire computational power to leverage compromised resources for cryptocurrency mining.
There have been countless stories in the news recently on how far adversaries go to steal compute resources for their own purposes to mine cryptocurrency. For instance, Russian hackers leveraged an abandoned factory to set up their own mining operation. The overall total cost of stolen electricity was over a million dollars.
For more information on this example, you can refer to this link: https://news.bitcoin.com/large-mining-farm-discovered-in-abandoned-russian-factory.
Adversaries might compromise assets and leverage resources on both the server and/or client side to mine cryptocurrency. This includes attacks such as the following:
- Leveraging vulnerabilities such as Cross-Site Scripting in web applications in order...
