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Crypto Miner in hotio/qbittorrent


Short investigation into a stealth crypto miner running in a qbittorrent container

Recently, while migrating to a new server, I discovered a suspicious process running inside a hotio/qbittorrent Docker container. While monitoring system resources, I noticed a process consuming unusually high CPU: Miner configuration options:--cpu-memory-pool,--opencl,--cuda,--rig-id, http-access-token.

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