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Threat Summary: NameĪegisLab (.4!c), BitDefender (.6329), Kaspersky (HEUR:), Microsoft (Trojan:Win32/Casdet!rfn), Full List ( VirusTotal).Ĭryptocurrency miners are designed to stealthily infiltrate the victim's computer and remain silent, and thus no particular symptoms are clearly visible on an infected machine. Research shows that it runs two miners and, therefore, consumes significant resources.

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Research shows that this particular miner is designed not to run on the operating system (not to mine cryptocurrency) when Activity Monitor is launched - this is so that users do not notice its processes running the malicious software and using computer resources to mine cryptocurrency via emulation. Note that high computer hardware usage caused by cryptocurrency miners causes greater electricity consumption, and hence higher electricity bills. Therefore, the operating system might start crashing or stop responding, which can result in loss of unsaved data, unexpected shutdowns, hardware overheating, etc. Typically, computers that have cryptocurrency miners installed and running on them start operating slower or even at the level where they virtually cannot perform any other tasks. It can mine cryptocurrency faster on computers with more powerful hardware, and thus generates more revenue for cyber criminals responsible.

Software of this kind achieves this by solving mathematical problems. When installed, it starts using computer resources (e.g., CPU, GPU) to mine cryptocurrency.

Cyber criminals distribute Bird Miner using an installer for a 'cracked' (pirated) version of ValhallaVintageVerb software.īird Miner is a malOnce cryptocurrency miner similar to Bird Miner. Research shows that it runs two miners and, therefore, it consumes extensive resources. Bird Miner is malicious software that uses computer resources to mine cryptocurrency via emulation.
