PowerGhost cryptojacking malware poses a new threat which jeopardizes legitimate cryptocurrency mining

Colleagues, crypto mining remains one of the weakest links in the cryptocurrency ecosystem and in turn a high priority target for cyber criminals. Although not as numerous as personal computers and laptops, corporate servers and workstations typically far more computing power which makes them such attractive targets to cryptojackers. PowerGhost, recently reported by Kaspersky Lab’s is a fileless malware which injects a one-line PowerShell script is run that downloads the miner’s body and immediately launches it without writing it to the hard drive. This malware has been detected in third world countries including Tukey, India, Brazil and Columbia. Malware like PowerGhost is especially a threat to cloud-based computing environments.  Now that the prevalence of the problem has been observed and noted, service providers may wish to extend capabilities they already have to find and flag this content. Bottom line: Cyber criminals relentlessly exploit the weakest point in any ecosystem. Given the meteoric growth of the cryptocurrency ecosystem all participants needs to be equally relentless in keeping their OS and application software up-to-date and installing patches as soon as they are released. Send us your comments today! Lawrence – Cryptocurrency Academy (https://cryptocurrencyacademy.blogspot.com/)