Created the project Hiberent as a way to learn more about bash scripting.
Hiberent aims to help folks mitigate against rogue cryptomining. The project does a few things:
Hiberent aims to help folks mitigate against rogue cryptomining. The project does a few things:
- checks common commands (curl, wget, tar) and prevents running them if known mining tools are found
- Looks for known cryptomining processes and kills them
I know that the way I implemented the checks for the commands can easily be bypassed. But hopefully, this project might help mitigate some of the abuse.
Looking for processes and killing them seems to be working okay against unsophisticated abuse.
Looking for processes and killing them seems to be working okay against unsophisticated abuse.