Researchers Find Way to Shut Down Cryptominer Campaigns Using Bad Shares and XMRogue
Researchers in cybersecurity have described two new techniques for stopping cryptocurrency mining botnets.
In a new research released today, Akamai stated that the techniques use the design of several popular mining topologies to stop the mining process.
By utilising mining topologies and pool policies, we have created two methods that allow us to drastically reduce the efficacy of a cryptominer botnet, forcing the attacker to alter their infrastructure or even stop the campaign altogether, according to security researcher Maor Dahan.
According to the web infrastructure business, the methods rely on taking advantage of the Stratum mining protocol in a way that bans an attacker's mining wallet or proxy read more about Researchers Find Way to Shut Down Cryptominer Campaigns Using B...