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Under the global pandemic environment, virtual currency has surged, prompting hackers to target this market and frequently use mining viruses to monetize traffic. To maximize profits, old viruses are frequently mutated, and new viruses are emerging endlessly, adopting various attack methods to quickly seize the market.

In recent years, the number of mining viruses has continued to climb, until 2021 when China increased its efforts to crack down on virtual currencies and successively introduced relevant policies to block virtual currency trading platforms.

September 2021

Eleven departments, including the National Development and Reform Commission, jointly released the "Notice on Rectifying Virtual Currency 'Mining' Activities", requiring a comprehensive screening of virtual currency "mining" behaviors and serious investigation and rectification of non-compliant virtual currency "mining" activities.

December 2021

The National Development and Reform Commission modified the "Industrial Structure Adjustment Guidance Catalogue (2019 Edition)", adding "virtual currency 'mining' activities" to the obsolete categories of "backward production processes and equipment". Since then, virtual currency "mining" activities have been formally included in the obsolete industrial category.

The impact of malicious mining activities on a single device is relatively small, but if they invade entity organizations in utilities, manufacturing, energy industries, and financial sectors, they will control the hosts for a long time, steal confidential files, and affect the security of their important business and data, thereby causing a series of chain reactions, resulting in hard-to-assess operational and production losses.

Hazards of Mining Software

The attack chain of mining software is very similar to that of conventional hacker attacks, possessing similar attack stages and attack techniques as shown below. Therefore, in any attack stage, as long as you can detect and block it, you can eliminate its impact.

Mining Software Attack Lifecycle

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Scylla Validation provides you with——

Professional mining software defense assessment services, and issues a complete assessment report for improvement reference.

The assessment report will clarify the assessment scope of this assessment service, and conduct a technical assessment of the enterprise's mining software defense capability within this scope. The assessment results will be presented in the report, identifying specific risks for the enterprise and providing systematic causes and recommendations for resolution.

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▌Scylla Validation Recommendations

Based on the stages of the mining software attack lifecycle, every organisation should strive to detect early-stage preliminary attacks of mining software to prevent it from ultimately achieving persistence and executing mining. Early detection of intrusion allows organisations to accelerate their response, keep the impact under control, and save energy and reduce emissions.

Scylla Validation is able to quickly and at scale (over 200 types) simulate intrusions before mining software deployment, helping to test whether your defense system can respond correctly to these attack methods.

Prepare——

You need to make various defense preparations against mining software activities. Through our security metric validation platform and services, Scylla Validation can help you tailor-make validation scenarios in a real environment against the different attack stages and techniques of mining software mentioned above, fully evaluating the defense capability of your current defense system against mining software.

The platform provides automation or manual methods through real simulation of attacks, and you will obtain real data on security product detection and blocking conditions, thereby improving the visibility and digitization of mining software prevention and boosting confidence. Our front-line team can better prepare you and your team to mitigate threats, reduce business risks, and decrease the impact of mining software.

Prevent——

In order for your defense system to identify activities before mining software deployment and flexibly implement adaptive defense policies, the Scylla Security Metric Validation Platform and Services can perform real simulation of different attack techniques at various attack stages of mining software, allowing you to complete the assessment with one click.

Scylla Validation provides you with one-time services or continuous (monthly/quarterly) services, helping you complete the assessment with one click, so that your security team and defense system can quickly identify current and past mining software and its techniques, and have the capability and experience to detect, block, and respond before attackers cause damage to the organisation. Gain an early information advantage through automated modules that identify Key Indicators of Compromise (IOCs). Managed detection and response services provide professional expertise (such as integrated attacker research) to detect malicious activities faster and effectively prioritize defense efforts.

Respond——

If relevant defense weaknesses are discovered through the Scylla Security Metric Validation Platform and Services, our front-line team will provide recommendations based on the assessed data, so that you can take swift and decisive actions to reinforce, ultimately improving shortcomings, thereby reducing the impact of future mining software attacks.

At the same time, you can also optimize the response process through the real mining software attack simulation of the Scylla Security Metric Validation Platform and Services, and exercise the response capability and experience of your security response team (such as emergency disposal, traceability analysis, rectification and enhancement work), so as to cope calmly when encountering real events in the future.