Cryptojacking Increased by 459 Percent Since 2017

[Kargai]

The Cyber Threat Alliance (CTA, which include companies like Symantec or McAfee) analyses recently the unauthorized use of computers to mine cryptocurrencies and they found a huge increase since the same date last year. It happen almost 5 times more often than before (459%).

But what we need to look at is when exactly the peak was at his worse and it was when the crypto market was at his higher, mostly in winter 2017-2018. But what could look like a good news is probably not, because since the market dropped less people are interested in cryptos.

And less people going on crypto sites & co mean less possibilities to use ther computer to mine with them, seem logic. As soon as the market will pump again, people will come back to some websites using the system and they will increase again.

In july 2018 a bried research could already found 23,000 websites  using coinhive to mine some coins at your expenses. 

Source : https://bitsonline.com/cryptojacking-threat-how-long/

Another reason I see at this decline is the fact that mining with their visitor's computer is less interesting financialy since the cryptos are down, it's not worth it anymore. I can see some sites puting back their sneaky code as soon as the prices will pump again

[la_st1]

My laptop was infected with malware which was mining for someone a few months back. It was pretty easy to spot since it was running hot and fan was constantly cranked to the max. In the end they probably only got a few thousand hashes from me.