Fear user: the number of hidden miners has increased 6 times since the beginning of the year

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The Number of cases of latent mining increased by 629 percent in 2018. Statistics report spread malware published by the company McAfee Labs. It is reported .

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McAfee Labs has reported that the company has clocked around 2.9 million malicious programs in the first quarter of 2018. This is almost 629 percent more than in the previous three months.

We Can conclude that the cybercriminals aim at the prospect of expanding their "business". However, they are not even forcing the victim to perform any action. Hidden mining much easier and doesn't require any extra effort from the hackers.

Infecting millions of machines around the world, fraudsters monetize their activities. Miners work with minimal risk of disclosure and the cyber criminals have increasingly sophisticated ways of infecting the PC. As mentioned previously, McAfee, hackers use Coinhive, with which you can mine Monero right in your browser.

Earlier, experts hacker attack Prowli Operation, during which the miners Monero has infected 40 000 devices around the world. In Japan, the 16 police suspects in the case about the hidden mining of cryptocurrency.

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