What is crypto mining?

Crypto mining is the process by which new units of digital currency are created. Here's how that works, the pros and cons of investing in your own mining rig, and the environmental impact of going all in Bitcoin.

What is Azure Security Center's crypto mining attack on Kubernetes?

Recently, Azure Security Center detected a new crypto mining campaign that targets specifically Kubernetes environments. What differs this attack from other crypto mining attacks is its scale: within only two hours a malicious container was deployed on tens of Kubernetes clusters.

What does a cryptocurrency miner do?

Cryptocurrency miners play a crucial, indispensable role in running PoW blockchains, validating transactions, and securing networks. Mining has evolved over the years in terms of equipment, difficulty, rewards, and techniques, including the use of mining pools.

What is a mineable cryptocurrency?

Bitcoin is the most popular and well-established example of a mineable cryptocurrency; Bitcoin mining is based on the PoW consensus algorithm. PoW is the original blockchain consensus mechanism created by Satoshi Nakamoto and was introduced in the Bitcoin whitepaper in 2008.