Kaspersky Report Finds Crypto Mining Attacks Dropped in 2019
A new report from security firm Kaspersky has shown that cryptocurrency mining attacks fell sharply during 2019 but that ransomware involving crypto is on the rise.
According to the “Kaspersky Security Bulletin ‘19” report, the total number of mining malware infections fell drastically in 2019. While the overall number of “unique malicious objects” reported by Kaspersky rose 13.7% on the year, mostly related to web-skimmer files designed for stealing credit cards, web-miner infections declined 59% from 5.638 million infected machines to 2.259 million.
However, certain crypto-mining malware scripts still made the top 20 list of threats, particularly applications that force a users’ computer to mine cryptocurrency in the background.
