Cryptominer
Hack · Distilled (purple) · Empirical Sciences corpus
Malware that uses the victim’s CPU or GPU to mine cryptocurrency for the attacker. Less overtly damaging than ransomware, more parasitic — the target keeps paying the electric bill.
Hack · Distilled (purple) · Empirical Sciences corpus
Malware that uses the victim’s CPU or GPU to mine cryptocurrency for the attacker. Less overtly damaging than ransomware, more parasitic — the target keeps paying the electric bill.