Cryptocurrency-Mining Malware Rapidly Increased from 2017, New Data Shows

[Goodcat49]

The number of world organizations affected by cryptocurrency mining malware nearly tripled from the second half of last year to the first half of 2018, as per the latest data from Check Point.

In its Cyber Attack Trends: 2018 Mid-Year Report, the Security Vendor stated that the figure increased from below 21 percent  in last year’s second half to 42 percent in first half of this year, with cyber-criminals scoring approximately $2.5 billion for over last six months.

All those behind the clean wool are becoming more refined and sophisticated in how crypto-mining malware was spread.

Crypto-miners' Major Targets
The major threat vector was once a simple website compromise, but currently, infections could appear through Google Play Apps, Facebook Messenger or YouTube.

“Crypto-miners today target anything that could be perceived as being in their way. As a result, we have witnessed crypto-miners targeting SQL databases, industrial systems, a Russian nuclear plant, and even cloud infrastructure. Crypto-miners have also highly evolved recently to exploit high-profile vulnerabilities and to evade sandboxes and security products in order to expand their infection rates,” the Report claimed.

It added that the mobile arena wasn’t at all impoverished of cryptocurrency mining multiple attacks in one way or the other. In April this year, an Android Cryptominer named 'HiddenMiner' attacked various devices and mined Monero continuously until all the device's resources were completely discharged.

Read the details in the article of Coinidol dot com, the world blockchain news outlet: https://coinidol.com/cryptocurrency-mining-malware-rapidly-increased-from-2017-new-data-shows/

[sugarchrisp]

Makes sense, when there's money to be had somewhere you know some criminal backdoor is going to try and exploit it somehow.   Hopefully this doesn't damage the cryptocurrency world as a whole, though.  I can see people being really apprehensive about getting into it with all this negative press.

[sammysnack]

unfortunately this happens, but I think that the future is still behind the crypto currency, anyway we will come to the fact that the crypto currency will be the main resource and currency.