threat actor
Pickaxe
Prying Libra, also known as Pickaxe, is a threat actor active since at least August 2017, and continues to remain active to this day. The adversary's goal is to install and maintain a popular cryptocurrency miner on the victim's machine. The miner in question is an open-source tool named XMRig that generates the Monero cryptocurrency. Malware is delivered via downloads through the popular Adfly advertisement platform. Users are often mislead into clicking on a malicious advertisement that result
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- id
- pickaxe
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- threat actor
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- Prying Libra
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- misp-galaxy 1bfd16ae-fd98-4a96-9397-d1651548bda2via misp-galaxy-threat-actor
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