detecting-cryptomining-in-cloud

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SKILL.md

Detecting Cryptomining in Cloud

When to Use

  • When cloud billing alerts indicate unexpected compute cost spikes
  • When GuardDuty generates CryptoCurrency or Impact finding types
  • When investigating compromised IAM credentials that may be used to launch mining instances
  • When monitoring container workloads for unauthorized process execution
  • When establishing proactive detection controls against resource hijacking attacks

Do not use for legitimate cryptocurrency mining operations, for non-cloud mining detection on physical hardware, or for general malware analysis unrelated to mining activity.

Prerequisites

  • Amazon GuardDuty enabled with Runtime Monitoring for EC2, ECS, and EKS
  • CloudWatch or Azure Monitor configured for compute utilization alerting
  • VPC Flow Logs enabled for network traffic analysis to mining pool IPs
  • AWS Cost Anomaly Detection or Azure Cost Management alerts configured
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