The website for Jedi survival was revealed to have a mining virus. when visiting the page, be careful.
In 2017, the Jedi survival and escape game went viral all over the world. In addition to attracting a large number of players to enter the game, it also expanded a number of "secondary industries", that is, plug-ins. The popularity of sellers who sell Jedi survival plug-ins and then "eat chicken" is also a huge profit. However, Kingsoft drug overlord security lab recently said, through monitoring, it is found that more than 10 pages of the Jedi survival game official website are implanted with the Monroe coin mining virus. When users access these pages that are implanted with the mining virus, computer computing power resources will be used by viruses for mining.
In fact, digital currencies also experienced explosive growth in 2017. Apart from leading Bitcoin, there were also Monroe coins, ethereum and other digital currencies, therefore, many criminals use websites with high daily IP addresses to implant mining viruses, and intend to use the power of many netizens to "mine ". According to statistics, in 2017, virtual coin transactions and mining behaviors on the Internet were very active, and the client mining virus and the mining script virus planted on the website were once the most harmful malicious programs of the year.
After a user visits a webpage implanted with the mining virus, the virus will infect the Windows system and break through the defense of anti-virus software to "mine" with computer computing power ", the high-load computer operation will bring different levels of "damage" to the hardware ". Features of the recruitment include: Slow computer response speed, significant increase in CPU/GPU usage in Task Manager, increased noise of computer cooling fans, and increased computer heat consumption.
What should I do after the user finds the target? First, install well-known security protection software, enable browser monitoring, and immediately disable websites and browsers suspected of being infected with viruses.