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Virus Remediation
Detected and Removed Cryptojacking Virus from Laptop
Discovered a cryptojacking virus by using task manager and filtering for CPU/GPU usage. A monero mining program was using up 100% of the CPU resources on my laptop. This program was not detected by a antivirus scan. After discovering this virus I factory reset my laptop and restored everything from a secure backup.
This incident gave me more experience in incident detection and response, malware, and virus remediation.