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
Browser-Based, Network-Protocol, Client-Server, Peer-to-Peer, Cloud-Based, Mobile-Device
Behavior
- Excessive-Bandwidth
Default Ports
- TCP/80
- TCP/443
Version Updates
Date | Version | Detail |
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2021-04-01 | 18.050 | Sig Added |