Open AccessCoinhive’s Monero Drive-by Crypto-jacking
Author(s) -
Azizah Binti Abdul Aziz,
Syahrulanuar Bin Ngah,
Yau Ti Dun,
Tan Fui Bee
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
iop conference series. materials science and engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1757-899X
pISSN - 1757-8981
DOI - 10.1088/1757-899x/769/1/012065
Subject(s) - jacking , host (biology) , computer science , cryptography , computer security , data mining , biology , ecology , art , performance art , art history
This paper provides study of behaviour on a drive-by crypto-jacking, specifically Coinhive’s Monero. Crypto-jacking is a form of cyber threat where a host machine’s processing power hijacked thru infected website to solve cryptographic puzzles as an unwitting participant. The sample study share host machine and network behaviours when host visited websites that have been embedded with Coinhive’s Monero related script. These data collection of behaviour can be utilize to identify and detect Coinhive’s Monero mining activities in networks.