Security News > 2020 > August > New AI algorithm to detect cryptocurrency miners as they steal power

Computer scientists have developed a new artificial intelligence system that may be able to identify malicious codes that hijack supercomputers to mine for cryptocurrency such as Bitcoin and Monero.

"Based on recent computer break-ins in Europe and elsewhere, this type of software watchdog will soon be crucial to prevent cryptocurrency miners from hacking into high-performance computing facilities and stealing precious computing resources," said Gopinath Chennupati, a researcher at Los Alamos National Laboratory and co-author of a new paper in the journal IEEE Access.

Legitimate cryptocurrency miners often assemble enormous computer arrays dedicated to digging up the digital cash.

Much as human criminals can be caught by comparing the whorls and arcs on their fingertips to records in a fingerprint database, the new AI system compares the contours in a program's flow-control graph to a catalog of graphs for programs that are allowed to run on a given computer.

Based on recent computer break-ins, such software watchdogs will soon be crucial to prevent cryptocurrency miners from hacking into high-performance computing facilities and stealing precious computing resources.

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