Cryptocurrency mining is associated with malicious software that can involve other people's computers in illegal mining and cause a significant reduction in their performance.
The risk of cryptocurrency mining itself lies in the fact that an attacker mining a given currency consumes computing power, so they try to obtain it elsewhere—using a program they install on a PC without the user's knowledge.
Product preventing cryptocurrency mining
True Image and Acronis Cyber Protect include an integrated Active Protection feature that protects the computer from ransomware attacks. If a process starts encrypting files, Acronis recognizes the process and knows that encryption is taking place. It blocks it—places the process in quarantine, where it waits for the user's decision, or blocks it automatically and can automatically restore a few files that were encrypted back from the cache to the same location.
It is a process that consumes virtually no resources because it does nothing on its own, but intervenes only when encryption occurs. It works on the basis of artificial intelligence—it monitors what is happening on the computer and does not rely on a virus database that may be outdated.
- Prevents attackers from stealing the performance of system resources using a built-in blocker that stops cryptojacking attacks in real time.