The terrible year: the number of cases of cryptogamia increased by 400 percent
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Cryptoprotocol this year was one of the most common problems in the world of Finance, as the popularity of digital currencies has reached record levels over the past 12 months. Kaspersky lab has published data about the current year. The report says the growth in the number of incidents with hidden miners by 400 percent. Most often the break-ins were related to the production of anonymous cryptocurrency, Monera.
theProblem cryptogamia gains momentum
Although many cryptogenetic it may be said that the main problem of the branch connected with the wild fluctuations of the cryptocurrency, Kaspersky Lab experts do not agree with this. This year the company is quite often about cryptobranchoidea first and foremost, pay attention to the hidden mining or so-called cryptogenic. Last year there were 3.5 million cases of hacking with the aim of introducing malicious code for covert mining, but in 2018, that figure rose to a record 13 million.
theMalware to steal cryptocurrency
Before it was popular to steal cars, but the world is changing, and the villains are also not stopped in development. Typically, cryptogamia use malicious scripts on the servers of web resources or user devices for mining. Today one of the main targets of cryptoprotocol is an anonymous cryptocurrency . In addition, attackers often penetrate user computers cryptocurrency and addresses cryptocell own.
As noted by the CCN, it often happens that the victim does not even know that the device was compromised and used in fraudulent schemes. After some time the script starts to have a negative impact on the processor of the device and its performance. In very rare cases the device may even fail due to overheating.
We will Remind, in June Kaspersky Lab already that cybercriminals are increasingly moving from extortion to scriptordering.
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