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Coinminer Comes with a Process “Kill List” to Keep Competitors at Bay

Security researchers have spotted the first cryptocurrency miner that includes a “kill list”” feature that shuts down processes of other coinminers in an attempt to hog the infected computer’s mining power only for itself. ISC Sans researcher Xavier Mertens says this coinminer is nothing out of the extraordinary and is just one of the many new cryptocurrency-mining-focused malware strains that have appeared since the start of the year

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