Bitcoin.Cryptocurrency.Miner

Description

This indicates an attempt to use Bitcoin mining protocols.
Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency and a digital payment system. Bitcoin mining serves to both add transactions to the block chain and release new Bitcoin.
This signature also detects traffics from other cryptocurrencies, such as Litecoin, that are based on Bitcoin mining protocols.

Affected Products

Bitcoin Mining

Impact

Network resource consumption

Technology

Client-Server

Behavior

• Excessive-Bandwidth

Default Ports

• TCP/80
• TCP/443
• UDP/443

References

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin#Mining