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Investigating the resurgence of the Mexals campaign

Stiv Kupchik is a Security Researcher Team Lead at Akamai. His research projects revolve around OS internals, vulnerability research, and malware analysis. He has presented his research at conferences such as Black Hat, Hexacon, and 44CON. In addition to being a cybersecurity professional, Stiv also has a BSc in physics.

Executive summary

\r\n Editorial and additional comments by Tricia Howard

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Editorial and additional comments by Tricia Howard

\r\n Akamai Security Research has been tracking and analyzing the resurgence of Mexals , a likely Romanian based cryptojacking campaign.

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\r\n The campaign has been active since at least 2020, and was previously covered in a report by Bitdefender in July 2021.

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\r\n The newest wave of attacks and malware improvements seems to have started in October 2022.…