Google Cloud Google Has Announced New Security To Detect Crypto-mining Malware On Virtual Machines

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In a blog posted on February 8, Google has announced a new security include named Virtual Machine Threat Detection (VMTD) for Google Cloud users in its Security Command Center (SCC) area that is intended to recognize and block crypto-mining malware attacks or “cryptojacking” that might be occurring behind the owners’ backs.

Google said this new feature is an agentless system that ceaselessly examines the memory of virtual machines sent in Google Cloud environments for indications of expanded CPU or GPU utilization- specific to crypto mining operations.

To keep away from false-positive detections, the element has been left disabled as a matter of course; in any case, any client can enable it for their GCP VMs. They can do this by going to the Settings page of their Security Command Center and looking under the Manage Settings segment.

According to Google, this feature will just work with non-sensitive memory, and VMTD won't handle memory from hubs set apart as "Confidential."

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