Ransomware-as-a-service, intricate phishing scams, cryptomining and cryptojacking schemes: Ransomware attacks will continue as long as cryptocurrency remains valuable.
According to a report by cybersecurity analytics firm Symantec, cryptojacking incidents have plummeted but the method of delivery, the execution and the targeting schemes have grown more sophisticated.
Chinese researchers have produced the first systematic study of the malicious mining of cryptocurrencies, known as cryptojacking. And it doesn't seem as if this trend will die down anytime soon.
Researchers from the cyber security firm Imperva say they have found the source of 90 percent of remote code execution attacks in December 2017: cryptocurrency mining malware.
