Sorry, Steve: iPhone have become popular devices for covert mining
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According to the index Global Threat, made by analytical company Check Point, last month the number of cases of infected devices with malware for covert mining has increased significantly. In this case, the risk was even iPhone owners. More recently, the scammers most often used for covert mining of cryptocurrencies is the Apple.
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The Results of their research analysts had published in the past .
Check Point Researchers identified a fourfold increase in the number of hacker attacks on the iPhone. This trend appeared in the second half of September. Users of Safari browsers also suffer due to the hidden mining.
The fact that the victim was even the browsers Mozilla, allows you to make a very interesting conclusion. It turns out that the problem is not in the iPhones. Main «tool» Scam has become the script Coinhive used for latent extraction .
According to Check Point, Coinhive is the main threat to cyber security December 2017. However, in recent years the situation has changed a bit — now the script is most common on sites that use the users of iOS.
The Second most popular «medium» fraud is a worm Dorkbot. At the same time, the script XMRig rapidly losing popularity, analysts put it at eighth place in the ranking of most famous FOR for covert mining.
At the moment, hackers adhere to classic tactics. They in any way forced users to download the infected file or visit a web page with Coinhive. Worms used less frequently for covert intervention in the device is used Dorkbot or Andromeda.
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Scammers may also target certain demographic areas. The closest example — an unknown hacker, who had recently published a game mod on one of the forums in Runet. Under the guise of fashion hides the miner Monero mining crypt on a powerful PC gamers.
Information was prepared . On the first criminal case in Russia for mining hidden read .
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