A Survey on a Novel Cryptojacking Covert Attack
Yogesh Gajmal, Pranav More, Kiran Dhanaji Kale, Arvind Jagtap · 2024
New technologies based on cryptocurrencies and blockchain are revolutionizing how we conduct commercials online. Nowadays, a wide range of blockchain as well as cryptocurrency systems, apps, also technologies are publicly accessible in the direction of businesses, end users, as well as even malicious attackers that seek towards deploy cryptojacking malware to abuse the computational resources of common people. Without the victims' knowledge, this type of malware operates on their machines. In order to mine cryptocurrency for the cybercriminal, it frequently infects browsers and performs CPU-intensive computations. The cybercriminal then steals the revenues without compensating for the resources used. However, current detection techniques, for instance browser extensions that designed to defend users using blacklist protection or antivirus programmes by different analysis techniques, can only partially solve the problem of emerging cryptojacking because attackers can simply get around them via using obfuscation methods or else frequently altering their domains or else scripts. As a result, numerous researches in the literature suggested employing different dynamic/behavioral indicators to identify cryptojacking malware. However, a systematic study using a deep grasp of the new cryptojacking attack as well as a thorough assessment of studies into the literature is lacking in the literature. Therefore, using data from the web and journal articles, we give a systematic study of cryptojacking in this paper. Finally, we offer some prevention advice as well as warning signs that you might have been a victim of cryptojacking.