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CryptoCurrency Miner Plays Hide-and-seek with Popular Games and Tools

posted by cmn32480 on Thursday June 14 2018, @11:22AM   Printer-friendly
from the now-we-need-new-tools dept.

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for SoyCow8317

When the CPU utilization on a computer is high, games become less responsive, frame rate goes down, and gameplay stutters. To diagnose these problems, users will commonly open process manager utilities such as Task Manager, Process Explorer, or Process Hacker to determine if any processes are using too much of the CPU power.

Knowing this, the developer of this mining Trojan does something pretty clever; they terminate the miner when the processes for popular games or process managers are launched. This causes the computer to appear to be operating normally when running certain games and when trying diagnose CPU utilization.

Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cryptocurrency-miner-plays-hide-and-seek-with-popular-games-and-tools/

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by nobu_the_bard on Thursday June 14 2018, @01:11PM

    by nobu_the_bard (6373) on Thursday June 14 2018, @01:11PM (#692864)

    Isn't that basically how Minecraft servers work?

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