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GhostEngine mining attacks kill EDR security using vulnerable drivers

GhostEngine mining attacks kill EDR security using vulnerable drivers

A malicious crypto mining campaign codenamed 'REF4578,' has been discovered deploying a malicious payload named GhostEngine that uses vulnerable drivers to turn off security products and deploy an XMRig miner. Researchers at Elastic Security Labs and Antiy have underlined the unusual sophistication of these crypto-mining attacks in separate reports and shared detection rules to help defenders identify and stop them. However, neither