A Cross-Stack Approach Towards Defending Against Cryptojacking
A Cross-Stack Approach Towards Defending Against Cryptojacking
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DOI：
10.1109/lca.2020.3017457
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发表时间：
2020-07
影响因子：
2.3
通讯作者：
Nada Lachtar;Abdulrahman Abu Elkhail;Anys Bacha;Hafiz Malik
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作者：
Nada Lachtar;Abdulrahman Abu Elkhail;Anys Bacha;Hafiz Malik
加密货币正在彻底改变我们开展日常业务的方式。不幸的是，网络犯罪分子利用这项技术通过加密劫持获利，这是一种恶意占用计算资源来挖掘加密货币的行为。在这封信中，我们探讨了一种检测加密劫持攻击的通用解决方案，无论应用程序类型如何。我们提出了一种端到端检测解决方案，该解决方案利用轻量级微架构更改来跟踪散列算法中常用的指令。对我们实现的评估表明，在SPEC 2006基准测试的混合工作负载上进行测试时，性能开销可以忽略不计。
Cryptocurrenices are revolutionizing the way we conduct every day business. Unfortunately, cybercriminals have harnessed this technology for making profit through cryptojacking, the act of maliciously appropriating computational resources for mining cryptocurrencies. In this letter, we explore a general solution for detecting cryptojacking attacks irrespective of the application type. We propose an end-to-end detection solution that leverages lightweight microarchitectural changes designed to track instructions that are commonly used in hash algorithms. An evaluation of our implementation shows negligible performance overhead while testing across a mix of workloads from the SPEC 2006 benchmarks.