Crypto Miner Malware

Question

Does Sophos remove Crypto Miner Malware (such as XMRig)? Can someone provide a list of Crypto miner malwares that Sophos can handle and remove?

Adithyan Thangaraj · Answer

Hi Shridhar Bharthulwar 
 Thank you for your post. As suggested by Christian , Miners are not necessarily Malwares unless it is used unauthorized and undesirably. So we categorize these miners under PUA as given here . Sophos would detect these applications as a PUA. We do not host a publicly available list of miners we detect, although, we will be glad to assist you with information on any specific variant which you doubt sophos has signature for (Although, we capture a huge number of malware based on their behavior as well over traditional signature based detection).