Poolnarc
catch hidden Linux cryptominers from two eBPF hooks
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HN · launched Jun 1, 2026 · 5 upvotes (top 87%) · 0 views
Niche: application and system security scanners · 260 launches, 34 in the last 7 days ▼ -6% · Explore this niche →
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- Security
- Observability & eval
- B2B
- Not AI
- Commercial product
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Could you build this?
No Detecting hidden cryptominers using eBPF kernel hooks requires kernel-level systems programming, deep Linux internals knowledge, and low-level malware analysis.
What it would actually take: The core component is written in C/Rust using `libbpf` or `aya` compiling into eBPF bytecode loaded into Linux tracepoints or kprobes (e.g., tracking Stratum mining protocol packets or thread scheduling anomalies). The hard part is avoiding false positives, minimizing CPU overhead in the kernel execution path, and defeating miner evasion techniques (process masquerading, encrypted payloads). This necessitates deep Linux kernel engineering and low-level security research expertise.
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Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 933 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #780 of 934 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 213 days after the earliest competitor.
- Bomfather, eBPF Runtime Security · hn · 2026-10-13 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- zig-secretstack · github · 2026-10-08 · 19 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Gecit · hn · 2026-04-05 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- flash-crypto-generator · github · 2026-11-04 · 139 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- DropLock · hn · 2026-06-02 · 24 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- wg-ez · github · 2026-10-10 · 39 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- wine-quarantine · github · 2026-10-07 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- polyxor · github · 2026-09-26 · 53 upvotes · similarity 0.49
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