KnowBe4 announced it has released a new version of its Ransomware Simulator RanSim tool that includes a crypto mining infection scenario. The RanSim tool provides insight into the effectiveness of existing network protections for organizations and simulates more than a dozen ransomware infection scenarios including the crypto mining infection scenario. This new crypto mining scenario simulates a Monero cryptocurrency-mining operation on the local machine. Monero mining is the most popular cryptocurrency mined by real-world malware and takes a lot of CPU and GPU cycles to process the data necessary to generate the currencies.