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Cryptocurrency mining attacks are on the rise. This year alone, hackers have infected over 1.65 million computers with cryptocurrency miners in just eight months. Security experts say cryptocurrecny mining Trojans have risen dramatically over the past few years, from merely 205,000 global infections in 2013 to over a million in 2017.
Security researchers at Kaspersky Lab said in August alone they detected "several large botnets" being used by cybercriminals to profit from concealed crypto mining. The researchers also said that Monero and ZCash are the most popular virtual currencies, as the "anonymity of transactions" is attractive to cybercriminals.
The development of the cryptocurrency market has led to an explosive growth in cases where miners are installed without users' knowledge or consent. This can be explained by the fact that when a new cryptocurrency is emerging, it is much easier to mine and make money from it. Threat actors are on the lookout for ways to use the resources of somebody else's hardware, and often it is regular users who fall victim," the Kaspersky Lab researchers said in a blog.
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Cryptocurrency mining attacks are on the rise. This year alone, hackers have infected over 1.65 million computers with cryptocurrency miners in just eight months. Security experts say cryptocurrecny mining Trojans have risen dramatically over the past few years, from merely 205,000 global infections in 2013 to over a million in 2017.
Security researchers at Kaspersky Lab said in August alone they detected "several large botnets" being used by cybercriminals to profit from concealed crypto mining. The researchers also said that Monero and ZCash are the most popular virtual currencies, as the "anonymity of transactions" is attractive to cybercriminals.
The development of the cryptocurrency market has led to an explosive growth in cases where miners are installed without users' knowledge or consent. This can be explained by the fact that when a new cryptocurrency is emerging, it is much easier to mine and make money from it. Threat actors are on the lookout for ways to use the resources of somebody else's hardware, and often it is regular users who fall victim," the Kaspersky Lab researchers said in a blog.
Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren:
http://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet/?&tag=Bitcoin
http://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet/?&tag=crypto-currency