MSR

Pierluigi Paganini August 05, 2021
Cryptominer ELFs Using MSR to Boost Mining Process

The Uptycs Threat Research Team recently observed Golang-based worm dropping cryptominer binaries which use the MSR (Model Specific Register) driver.  By UPTYCS THREAT RESEARCH  Original research by Siddarth Sharma The Uptycs Threat Research Team recently observed Golang-based worm dropping cryptominer binaries which use the MSR (Model Specific Register) driver to disable hardware prefetchers and increase the speed of the mining […]