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Cryptominers’ Anatomy: Cryptomining Internals

Maor Dahan is a Senior Security Researcher at Akamai with more than a decade of experience in the cybersecurity industry. He specializes in operating system internals, vulnerability research, and malware analysis. Maor also has extensive experience designing and developing advanced detection and prevention mechanisms for innovative security products such as EDR, EPP, and virtualization-based security.

Cryptominer malware exploits the fundamental aspect of cryptocurrency — its mining process — as a primary means of generating profit.

Cryptominers , or cryptojackers , are a type of malware that exploits the victim's resources for profit by mining cryptocurrency.…