Cryptojacking Detection in Cloud Infrastructure Using Network Traffic
Philip Kwedza, Stones Dalitso Chindipha · 2023
Cryptomining is a way to obtain cryptocurrency, by performing computationally complex puzzles in exchange for a reward. To perform this requires expensive specialised hardware to become profitable but most times, this is not viable. Cryptojacking is a cybercrime in which an attacker uses devices to mine cryptocurrency without permission. This attack can be extended to use the resources of networks and cloud infrastructure. This research aimed to develop a model that could detect cryptojacking automatically in a cloud environment, utilising network traffic. The models in this paper solved this by developing a machine learning model that could analyse cryptojacking in a dataset of network traffic from an attacked cloud server.