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Everything about Cryptojacking
Hijacking computers to mine currency
Cryptojacking is the act of exploiting a computer to mine cryptocurrencies, often through websites, against the user's will or while the user is unaware. One notable piece of software used for cryptojacking was Coinhive, which was used in over two-thirds of cryptojacks before its March 2019 shutdown. The cryptocurrencies mined the most often are privacy coins—coins with hidden transaction histories—such as Monero and Zcash. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: CryptojackingA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: A deep learning approach for host-based cryptojacking malware detectionInfluential work since 2022
- Read the landmark paper: Cryptomining makes noise: Detecting cryptojacking via Machine LearningCited 69 times
- Go sideways: CryptoLockerA closely related topic
- Go sideways: AlureonA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun A type of cybercrime involving the unauthorized use of an individual's electronic device by cybercriminals to mine for cryptocurrency.
Verb present participle and gerund of cryptojack
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Cryptomining makes noise: Detecting cryptojacking via Machine Learning
Delay-CJ: A novel cryptojacking covert attack method based on delayed strategy and its detection
You Could Be Mine(d): The Rise of Cryptojacking
Detecting Cryptojacking Web Threats: An Approach with Autoencoders and Deep Dense Neural Networks
A Cross-Stack Approach Towards Defending Against Cryptojacking
Cryptojacking injection: A paradigm shift to cryptocurrency-based web-centric internet attacks
A Real-Time Hybrid Approach to Combat In-Browser Cryptojacking Malware
Detecting Cryptojacking Containers Using eBPF-Based Security Runtime and Machine Learning
🆕 Influential since 2022
A deep learning approach for host-based cryptojacking malware detection
Detecting and forecasting cryptojacking attack trends in Internet of Things and wireless sensor networks devices
On Detecting Cryptojacking on Websites: Revisiting the Use of Classifiers
CryptojackingTrap: An Evasion Resilient Nature-Inspired Algorithm to Detect Cryptojacking Malware
Analyzing In-Browser Cryptojacking
📚 Books worth reading
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