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Titre: [AVAST]Avast blocked more than 34 million Monero cryptomining attacks in one day
Posté par: igor51 le décembre 05, 2017, 19:00:12

Avast blocked more than 34 million Monero cryptomining attacks in one day

On Sunday, December 3rd, we saw a peak in one of our detections, JS:Miner-I, which blocks a cryptocurrency miner that uses the cryptonight algorithm to mine Monero, a popular cryptocurrency. The algorithm is suitable for using PC CPU for mining, and the miner is run using JavaScript. We blocked JS:Miner-I from launching on our users’ PCs, preventing 34.7 million attacks in just one day. The extreme peak wasn’t the only thing that caught our attention; all the detections were launched within Google’s Chrome browser.

Source: Avast blocked more than 34 million Monero cryptomining attacks in one day (https://blog.avast.com/avast-blocked-more-than-34-million-monero-cryptomining-attacks)