Trojan.ElectrumDoSMiner

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Short bio

Trojan.ElectrumDoSMiner is Malwarebytes’ detection name for a Trojan responsible for distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against Electrum bitcoin wallets.

Type of infection

Flooding ElectrumX servers on port 50002 or 50001

Malicious behavior

Users of affected computers may experience slowdowns in internet speed as they are joined to a botnet that performs DDoS attacks.

Protection

Malwarebytes blocks the IP 178.159.37.113

Home remediation

You can use the Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Nebula console to scan endpoints.

Nebula endpoint tasks menu

Choose the Scan + Quarantine option. Afterwards you can check the Detections page to see which threats were found.

On the Quarantine page you can see which threats were quarantined and restore them if necessary.