Report outlines lucrative rise of nefarious cryptomining groups and their complex new business models.
The bloom is on the criminal cryptomining of computer resources and the reason is obvious – it’s lucrative. One cryptomining gang tracked by researchers over the past six months minted $7 million with the help of 10,000 computers infected with mining malware.
The rise of malicious cryptomining isn’t a shocker to anyone following cybersecurity. However, what is startling is the rise in the use of sophisticated and complex techniques that some groups now use. Many cryptomining groups have adopted hacking techniques and tools typically only seen by sophisticated APT threat actors.
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