Coins is a cryptocurrency mining malware family with 359 samples in ember 2018 that uses victim cpu or gpu resources without authorization to mine cryptocurrency, typically monero. symptoms include high cpu usage, system slowdown, and increased electricity consumption.
Coins is a member of the cryptominer category in the EMBER 2018 malware corpus. Like other cryptominer samples it shares the behaviors typical of that class. Because precise family-specific reporting on Coins is limited, this catalog only describes it at the category level rather than fabricating unverified details.
Do not attempt manual removal. Cryptominer samples often establish persistence and may be part of a larger compromise. Isolate the affected system from the network and contact SystemHelpdesk expert MSP support at 855-783-7555 for professional incident response.
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This profile is part of the Malware Families Catalog, a public dataset of 2,899 malware families extracted from the EMBER 2018 benchmark. The catalog is also published on Hugging Face and Kaggle.