Intel and Microsoft Team Up to Protect Your Computer From Crypto Jacking
It seems like cryptocurrency has dominated the news lately in regards to technology, and rightfully so. Whether it's investing or mining, people are making tons of money through cryptocurrency. But of course, you can never be too carefree on the internet when it comes to money transactions. Hackers are deliberately using Malware to infiltrate other people's systems to mine currency. Crafty indeed, but malicious. This year alone, Microsoft has recorded a heightened spike in inactivity.
Microsoft and Intel are teaming up to thwart crypto hacks through machine learning and Microsoft Defender For Endpoint. An anti-virus software embedded into Windows 10 OS that will prove worthy to users.
Briefly, here's what you need to know about Crypto Jacking. The attacker will deploy a crypto-miner in the form of a malicious payload. The solution, Microsoft and Intel, are implementing a silicon-based technology that will detect threats at endpoint devices.
Upon publishing this article, Intel is implementing what’s called a Threat Detection Technology (TDT) into Microsoft Defender For Endpoint, as quoted by Intel, "an addition that enhances the detection capability and protection against Crypto Jacking Malware." Intel TDT will directly use machine learning at low-level hardware from the processor's code detecting executed footprints.
Right now, this technology will only function on Intel Core or vPro systems from 6th generation variants on up. Sorry AMD users, you won't gain access to Threat detection technology. But I could see AMD and Microsoft one day team up and develop the same solution. Especially when many PC enthusiasts these days processor of choice is the Ryzen series.
Kudos to Microsoft and Intel for working together to going out of their heir way to protect our computers.
