Crypto-Loot Miner
Posted: October 13, 2017
Threat Metric
The following fields listed on the Threat Meter containing a specific value, are explained in detail below:
Threat Level: The threat level scale goes from 1 to 10 where 10 is the highest level of severity and 1 is the lowest level of severity. Each specific level is relative to the threat's consistent assessed behaviors collected from SpyHunter's risk assessment model.
Detection Count: The collective number of confirmed and suspected cases of a particular malware threat. The detection count is calculated from infected PCs retrieved from diagnostic and scan log reports generated by SpyHunter.
Volume Count: Similar to the detection count, the Volume Count is specifically based on the number of confirmed and suspected threats infecting systems on a daily basis. High volume counts usually represent a popular threat but may or may not have infected a large number of systems. High detection count threats could lay dormant and have a low volume count. Criteria for Volume Count is relative to a daily detection count.
Trend Path: The Trend Path, utilizing an up arrow, down arrow or equal symbol, represents the level of recent movement of a particular threat. Up arrows represent an increase, down arrows represent a decline and the equal symbol represent no change to a threat's recent movement.
% Impact (Last 7 Days): This demonstrates a 7-day period change in the frequency of a malware threat infecting PCs. The percentage impact correlates directly to the current Trend Path to determine a rise or decline in the percentage.
Threat Level: | 8/10 |
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Infected PCs: | 63 |
First Seen: | October 13, 2017 |
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Last Seen: | June 25, 2022 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
The Crypto-Loot Miner is another online service, which allows webmasters to implement a JavaScript on their websites to use the CPUs of their visitors to mine for various cryptocurrencies. Although the Crypto-Loot Miner service allows its users to use it for various cryptocurrencies, the most popular choice appears to be Monero. While miners of this sort are not unsafe necessarily and they will not drop any files on the victim's computer, it is clear that they take advantage of the hardware resources of random visitors without asking for their permission.
While the Crypto-Loot Miner is not considered to be threatening, it is recommended to stay away from websites that use such methods to monetize the daily traffic they receive. If you are aware that one of your favorite pages uses a service like the Crypto-Loot Miner to utilize your CPU's resources and you are happy to help them out, then you should not be too worried if your anti-virus application detects the Crypto-Loot Miner while you are browsing the page in question. However, if you see an anti-malware alert regarding the Crypto-Loot Miner while you browse a random page, then we advise you to avoid this website in the future since having it opened might utilize a significant portion of your CPU's resources, therefore impairing the performance of your Web browser and system in general.
Since the Crypto-Loot Miner does not drop any files on your computer, you should not be worried about harsher consequences. All is needed is to do to avoid this miner is to stay away from the pages that are known for using it.
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