The Report was Published By Kaspersky Lab that is Global Security Company and they said that Cybercriminals are just moving to Crypto Mining Malware from Ransomeware Attacks. In that report they said that Crypto Mining Malware is more Profitable for Hackers than Ransomware Attacks.
In 2017, The Ransomware name Wannacry was the Biggest ransomware and that Virus just headace for many users and that spread to Several Organizations including many UK National Health Service Hospitals. The Ransome mainly target to Windows exploit and encrypted all users files on Computes and they demand Bitcoin to decrypt that all Files.
One of the report said that The Crypto Mining Malware are increased by 45% in last year 2017. Cryptojacking was lamost doing by Hakcers, They just doing it by by some software that mostly people using and thet attached that Cryptojacking script with that Software and when the victim open that Software to ue than that Script automatic start their work of mining Cryptocurrency.
Mostly the Cryptocurrency name Monero (XMR) are using for Mining and Than many websites also using that mining script that when user open the website than their device just starting mining with their Computer Power and that user don't know what is running in background of that Website and the Hackers just enjoying the Cryptocurrrency daily that they earn.
When this Cryptojacking is running than your device just Hang sometime and your CPU and GPU power just using more and more. After the Browser Company "Mozilla Firefox" just launched the protection for cryptojacking that browser just stop that mining automatic. Now many Antivirus are giving that security to protect from this type of activity on your computer.
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