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Cybercriminals Start Focusing on CPU Mining Tools – Continue to Hijack Machines for Cryptocurrency M

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September 19, 2017 By Rafia Shaikh

 

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“Network Attacks Containing Cryptocurrency CPU Mining Tools Grow Sixfold”

 

With an increasing success and profitability of cryptocurrency, criminals have also started to focus their efforts on abusing the largely untraceable currency. If the last two years are any indication, cybercriminals have tried to attack both sides of the financial world, however, thanks to the inherent privacy that cryptocurrency offers, it is becoming a center of the recent campaigns.

 

While we reported a number of attacks that focused on cryptocurrency (mostly Ethereum in this wave) earlier this summer, attackers aren’t only looking at emptying out online wallets. They are also focusing their efforts on recruiting machines for mining. A latest research report from IBM X-Force that the team shared with Wccftech ahead of its publication reveals that there has been a “steep increase” in the number of mining tools used in cyberattacks. The malware containing cryptocurrency coin-mining tools have apparently started to focus more on the enterprise networks and CPU mining.

 

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