Cryptominer ELFs Using MSR to Boost Mining Process
Security Affairs
AUGUST 5, 2021
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 process by 15%. In this blog, we will detail the usage of MSR to disable the hardware prefetcher in the cryptomining malwares.
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