Hackers Attacked by Bear: Crypto-Jacking is Declining

[kreslik.news]

Kaspersky Lab, a Moscow-based cyber-security firm, has named cryptocurrency mining as its story of the year. It has found that attacks have gradually declined over 2018, but remain a major concern.

It should be noted that the information in the report only concerns countries with a considerable number of Kaspersky Lab clients.

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What is crypto-jacking?

Crypto-jacking has become a worldwide issue over the past year. This refers to cryptocurrency mining programmes being installed on computers unbeknownst to the users.

Cryptocurrency mining, for Bitcoin anyway, is a very CPU-heavy task, which is why most miners use dedicated machines ... (read more)