Intel TDT equips endpoint detection and response solutions with CPU telemetry and machine learning heuristics for advanced memory scanning, cryptojacking and ransomware detection. The company claims these are the only CPU-based malware behaviour-monitoring capabilities in the market that go beyond signature and file-based techniques.
Karthik Selvaraj, principal security research manager at Microsoft, pointed out that cryptocurrency mining has been on the rise in recent years, thanks to the increasing value of virtual currencies, the growth of popularity of different kinds of cryptocurrency and the volatility of these new markets.
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“As cryptocurrency prices rise, many opportunistic attackers now prefer to use cryptojacking over ransomware,” he said. “The risks for organizations have increased, as attackers deploy coin miners as a payload for malware campaigns.”