Cryptominers' Anatomy: Shutting Down Mining Botnets
Akamai Technologies, June 24,2025
Everybody knows that the best defense is offense. Because of the distributed nature of cryptominer campaigns, disrupting them can be very challenging.
In this blog post, we show how to overcome this problem by exploiting the design of common mining topologies to effectively shut down the mining process. Although the techniques we describe were used to target Monero cryptominers, the same principles can apply to other cryptocurrencies, as well.