Tag: Cryptominer

Discovered in 2020, Kinsing is a Golang cryptominer with a rootkit component. Originally designed to exploit Linux systems.

NSRMiner is a cryptominer that surfaced around November 2018, and was mainly spread in Asia, specifically Vietnam, China, Japan and Ecuador.

LemonDuck is a cryptominer first discovered in 2018, which targets Windows systems. It has advanced propagation modules, including sending malspam, RDP brute-forcing and mass-exploitation via known vulnerabilities such as BlueKeep.

It targets MSSQL databases and implants cryptomining modules on target machines. Tencent Security says that while they saw only infections on MSSQL servers.