[GRLUG] htop issue

[Grand Rapids Linux Users Group]

Looks like crypto mining scripts running on your machine.


On Wed, Jan 11, 2023 at 5:21 PM Grand Rapids Linux Users Group <
grlug at grlug.org> wrote:

>
> Trying to catch problems on a web server, .. installed htop and saw
> hundreds of processes like:
>
> ./htop -a yescryptR16 -o 198.50.168.213:6333 -u <random string> -p x
> -cpu-..
>
> Nothing in ps ax looked weird, all recognizable. No htop files other than
> the package. Ancient Ubuntu machine, ..
>
> Why would htop be reporting in this manner?
>
>         TIA!
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