US Department of Energy has developed an algorithm for detecting cryptojacking attacks – Bits Media

US Department of Energy Scientists Appeal to the Private Sector for Help in Commercializing a "Heavy Duty" Cryptojacking Detection Algorithm, dedicated to data centers.

Disclosed in a possible contract
technology can detect illegal mining software with maximum accuracy, using free computing power of hosts for mining cryptocurrencies. According to scientists from the Department of Energy, this software combats the "growing threat" of the proliferation of cryptojacking attacks, which threatens data centers around the world.

Department of Energy Scientists at Idaho National Laboratory Want to Stop Hidden Mining Software Distribution, offering its detection technology to private sector partners. The algorithm scans data processing applications for hidden cryptocurrency miners. It reveals hidden mining software, using deep learning technology, which, according to researchers, more precisely binary classification.

“This invention is a rapid test, machine translation-based. It allows you to make sure, what's the binary, submitted for execution on a data center system, does not contain malware for cryptocurrency mining. It uses the attention engine in deep learning to accurately and reliably detect mining malware, secretly deployed in high performance computing systems. This approach is based on machine translation, not binary classification ".

The details of the algorithm are available only to potential partners., whom the ministry hopes to involve in the development and eventually commercialization of an early-stage cryptojacking detection algorithm.

Summer 2019 года министерство энергетики США выделило
grant in the amount $1.05 million organizations, working on the commercialization of a blockchain platform for power distribution management. According to a recent report from Microsoft, hackers have become more likely to use cryptojacking attacks as a distraction for more serious intrusions into security systems.