Crypto-Mining Malware Attacks up 29% in Q1: McAfee Report

From coindesk.com

McAfee Labs has released its August 2019 Threats Report, concluding that crypto-jacking is on the rise. Crypto-mining malware campaigns climbed 29 percent from Q4 2018 to Q1 2019 according to the study. McAfee said the campaign was indiscriminate, with both Apple MacOS and Microsoft Windows systems seeing a rise in targeted attacks. Windows products were typically targeted through PowerShell, and interactive command line and automation engine that delegates administrative tasks to the computer itself. By using PowerShell, vulnerabilities in servers were exploited to mine the privacy coin monero. McAfee said the ... (full story)