{"id":41478,"date":"2021-04-27T13:36:10","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T10:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=41478"},"modified":"2025-08-30T18:55:41","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T15:55:41","slug":"microsoft-and-intel-sharpen-detection-of-hidden-crypto-miners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/microsoft-and-intel-sharpen-detection-of-hidden-crypto-miners\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft and Intel sharpen detection of hidden crypto miners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A corporate deployment of Microsoft Defender for Endpoint now includes Intel&#8217;s threat-detection technology for rapid detection of crypto-mining malware.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">With cryptocurrency mining on the rise, attackers have pivoted from using ransomware to cryptojacking. Learn how Microsoft and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intel?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Intel<\/a> have partnered to better detect crypto mining malware using Microsoft Defender for Endpoint: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/59JAO2lDHg\">https:\/\/t.co\/59JAO2lDHg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Microsoft Security (@msftsecurity) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/msftsecurity\/status\/1386741875936202752?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 26, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Intel Threat Detection Technology (TDT) relies on telemetry data to detect anomalies in CPU performance. Unlike other forms of protection, TDT can detect malware before the victim&#8217;s computer is infected, for the purposes of mining.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_133060\" style=\"width: 1111px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-133060\" class=\"size-full wp-image-133060\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/CoinMiner-Alert.png\" alt=\"Microsoft and Intel sharpen detection of hidden miners\" width=\"1101\" height=\"587\" srcset=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/CoinMiner-Alert.png 1101w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/CoinMiner-Alert-300x160.png 300w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/CoinMiner-Alert-1024x546.png 1024w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/CoinMiner-Alert-768x409.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1101px) 100vw, 1101px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-133060\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Screenshot of a CoinMiner block warning. Data: microsoft.com.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>A machine-learning-based solution is showing effective results, even as malware attempts to bypass security tools.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft and Intel expect their collaboration will strengthen protection for corporate clients.<\/p>\n<p>According to a recent Avira Protection Labs study, the number of hidden-miner attacks rose by 53% in Q4 2020 compared with Q3.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the hosting service GitHub reported cryptocurrency mining on its cloud servers. The company is conducting <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/github-servers-used-for-cryptocurrency-mining\">an incident investigation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ForkLog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intel threat-detection technology has been integrated into Microsoft Defender for Endpoint to enable rapid detection of crypto-mining malware.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41479,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1154,1111,736,15],"class_list":["post-41478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-crimes","tag-cybersecurity","tag-intel","tag-microsoft"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"19","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41480,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41478\/revisions\/41480"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}