Detect mining malware on users of League of Legends

Mining Cryptocurrency malware continues to demonstrate why it is the preferred hacker attack method, not only because of its profitability, but also because of the security that it offers when it hides his identity.

the hackers seem to aim for a new goal: the players. This was reported by a Filipino user of Reddit, named Lestergonzaga who stated that customers of the Garena server, from the popular League of Legends (LOL) game, were used to exploit the Monero cryptocurrency without anyone do not have it. detected because the malware was acting as a background process connected to Coinhive.com.

Specifically, players' devices were turned into a minor Monero, and Lestergonzaga was the first to inform fans of their find, by writing a note in the game's official subreddit. The Daily Sports, the publication of the players has attracted the attention of a large number of users, which has resulted in more than 12,000 votes in favor of its publication.

For its part, most players attribute responsibility for what happened to Garena, to allow the introduction of malicious software on their servers. As this is normal in such a situation, another group of users began to suggest that not only LOL users, but all Garena users have been affected by the malware, however, this information n & # 39 has not been confirmed and Garena has proceeded to eliminate mining malware from his system.

Garena informed through his Facebook page that in fact there was an unauthorized change in the LOL client server, where the JavaScript code was inserted.

Garena reported that Beyond the increase in CPU usage, the malware did not affect users' computers in any way, guaranteeing that it was removed and that such incidents would not happen again.