Coinminer is a crypto miner, a type of malware that abuses system resources to generate revenue. The primary threats posed by such infections include decreased system performance or failure, data loss, hardware damage, and financial losses. Researchers have now discovered a malware that mines coins and installs clipper malware to affected systems. Clipper is a malware that targets cryptocurrency wallet addresses during the transaction, it hijacks a cryptocurrency transaction by swapping a wallet address with one owned by the malware author.
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Coinminer is a crypto miner, a type of malware that abuses system resources to generate revenue. The primary threats posed by such infections include decreased system performance or failure, data loss, hardware damage, and financial losses. Researchers have now discovered a malware that mines coins and installs clipper malware to affected systems. Clipper is a malware that targets cryptocurrency wallet addresses during the transaction, it hijacks a cryptocurrency transaction by swapping a wallet address with one owned by the malware author.
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The following reports contain further technical details:
https://blog.cyble.com/2022/10/25/dual-malware-infection-targets-cryptocurrency-users/
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