Detecting Monero Miners with Bpftrace
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Detecting Monero Miners with Bpftrace
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#2How can we detect it inside the browser ?
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#3My employer does a pretty good job of giving us terrible hardware so the thought of mining on it is self-discouraging.
They have no problems giving us space heaters though.
As largely a joke, I sometimes fire up monero mining on my laptop at home because the average proceeds exceed electricity cost, even though it’ll take me about a decade to ever get a block. The heat is just cake icing.
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#4>If these cryptojackers were to mine Bitcoin or Ethereum, their transaction details would be open to the public, making it possible for law enforcement to track them down
That doesn't actually matter at all. Monero is used for these purposes probably just because it's mineable only on CPU, thus viable to mine on ordinary hardware. (Bitcoin requires ASIC and Ethereum high-end GPU)
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#5Monero is not anonymous anymore as soon as you want to convert to fiat.
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#6Monero is not anonymous anymore as soon as you want to convert to fiat.
So? Monero also makes it trivial to create a fake paper trail for the origins of your money.
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#7How can we detect it inside the browser ?
Detect, or block? There are a few options for blocking, if you run uBlock Origin[1] the Resource Abuse list covers many.
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#8Monero is not anonymous anymore as soon as you want to convert to fiat.
So? Monero also makes it trivial to create a fake paper trail for the origins of your money.
When you will receive the bank wire from the exchange you need to provide to IRS the source of income.
What will you say to them?
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#9>If these cryptojackers were to mine Bitcoin or Ethereum, their transaction details would be open to the public, making it possible for law enforcement to track them down That doesn't actually matter at all. Monero is used for these purposes probably just because it's mineable only on CPU, thus viable to mine on ordinary hardware. (Bitcoin requires ASIC and Ethereum high-end GPU)
Yep. Monero is explicitly designed to remain CPU mineable, so that theoretically it remains more decentralized and mined by individuals rather than an industrial complex like bitcoin and ethereum have become.
Counterintuitively, I think this also makes it more susceptible to nation state attacks, since you can easily deputize fleets of existing CPUs to 51% attack the network, whereas no nation state on the planet can easily get enough sha256 ASIC miners to attack bitcoin, not even accounting for the enormous electricity requirements to sustain a destructive attack.
Then again, the consolidation of bitcoin mining as an industry is also a systemic risk compared to millions of individuals in the network mining. Tradeoffs.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
So? Monero also makes it trivial to create a fake paper trail for the origins of your money.
When you will receive the bank wire from the exchange you need to provide to IRS the source of income. What will you say to them?
Just sell an NFT to yourself.