Security News > 2019 > January > Mining malware evades agent-based cloud security solutions

Cloud infrastructures are a growing target for threat actors looking to mine cryptocurrency, as their vast computational power allows them to multiply the mining malware’s effect. Keeping its presence from being noticed as long as possible is, naturally, a goal worth striving for and criminals are coming up with new ways to achieve it. One of the approaches, employed by a threat group dubbed Rocke, is to uninstall agent-based cloud security products before downloading the … More → The post Mining malware evades agent-based cloud security solutions appeared first on Help Net Security.

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