![]() The name of the mode that carries the mining script is presumably called Arbuz.ĭue to lack of operational security and possibly due to lack of experience, the hacker’s identity has likely been revealed by researchers at Minerva Labs. The person behind this goes by the online alias of opc0d3r and the miner utility that he uses in his mode is called WaterMiner. A Russian modder, who has been creating mods for the popular game GTA V seems to have added a modified version of the legitimate XMRig miner that allows him to mine Monero through the PCs of people who download and use its mode. Recently, yet another instance of illegal Monero mining was detected coming from Russia. ![]() This leads to a lot of people believing that even the legitimate miners are some form of malware. ![]() Monero miners aren’t all illegal, however, there are several legitimate miners such as CoinHive and Crypto-Loot (more information on CoinHive and Crypto-Loot) but even those tend to oftentimes get implemented within apps and websites in an illegitimate way since the users are either not notified about the miner and/or aren’t given an option to disable it. In itself, this isn’t really dangerous to the computer but it normally leads to a severe productivity slow-down due to an excessive processor use. The idea is simple, a script is added to the code of an application, a website or even a game mode which commands the PC to use its processor power to mine Monero, which gets sent to the person behind all this. Each day, we become witnesses to the increasing popularity of the Monero cryptocurrency and the rising number of malware developers who seek to make quick money by forcing the PCs of regular users to mine Monero for their profit.
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