Re: Los Alamos National Laboratory is building an anti crypto mining AI
How hard can it be to detect that you computer is under full load even when idle or just doing some non-intensive tasks? Your fans will get louder, you might notice some heat, your performance will slow down.
Some simply ignore the noise level produced by the computer thinking it is normal, but the creators of crypto mining malware also adapt in such a way that they do not use the maximum power of the CPU, which then does not result in a significant slowdown or increase in noise.
Anyway,I thought that supercomputers are running in a "closed" network,without access to the world wide web,since their main function is to do big math calculations.How a supercomputer can be infected by a crypto mining virus?I'm no expert in this field,so this seems weird to me.
Obviously this is not the case, if you read the article the following is stated :
The cyber-security company said the attackers appear to have stolen university members’ SSH credentials in Canada, China, and Poland in order to gain access to the supercomputer clusters. Secure Shell, or SSH, is a cryptographic network protocol for operating network services securely over an unsecured network.+“Once attackers gained access to a supercomputing node, they appear to have used an exploit for the CVE-2019-15666 vulnerability to gain root access and then deployed an application that mined the Monero (XMR) cryptocurrency.”
I guess that crypto mining scripts are easy to be detected by any ordinary anti-virus program,when it comes to desktop computers,so there's no need for Artificial Intelligence. 
It's true, from time to time my AV detects such attempts from some sites that try to mine Monero via a browser - but this is not about this kind of CPU power hijacking - but about very sophisticated malware that is installed in the system and sometimes is very skillfully camouflaged as a legitimate program. As things stand with supercomputers, it seems that they really need AI to detect such abuses - besides, everything is going in the direction of giving more and more control to AI, and this area is no exception.