The new McAfee Labs report indicates that Cryptojacking malware has exceeded 4,000% this year

McAfee reports indicate that Crypto Mining's malware has exceeded 4,000% this year

Malware has been with us since the dawn of the internet and, in fact, even before that. However, the rise of the Internet at the end of the 90s and at the beginning of 2000 was the moment when it was truly real that malware posed a popular threat to people. Some people thought technology would improve and things would get better, but it looks like it's actually worse now.

According to the December 2018 report of the cybersecurity company based in the United States McAfee (founded by the same McAfee who currently enjoys his life by treating people on Twitter and being completely unreal about the future prices of Bitcoin), the third quarter of 2018 saw an increase of 4,000% of the malware threats of encryption, reaching the number of four million new threats compared to less than half a million in 2017.

In fact, encrypted malware is widespread as a scourge. This kind of the malware it remained largely unnoticed until mid-2017. As the cryptography market has started to see its prices rise, however, the numbers have increased a lot.

Also known as crypto-jacking, the software is based on the devices of the victims and is very effective until they realize that their machines are used to extract the encrypted.

While the ransomware that loads Bitcoin or Monero from the victims it was more common before, encrypted encryption malware it is more common now because it has become a profitable business model. They used a lot of internet of things (IoT) even devices for crypto mining, according to McAfee.

While the CPU of IoT devices and even video recorders is missing, their security is even more lacking, so they are extremely easy to infect. Without adequate security measures, these devices are simply a great opportunity for hackers to use them without anyone ever knowing. In this way, they can infect many IoT devices and make a huge profit.

Another popular malware was for the Mac operating system and was called OSX.Dummy. People downloaded them from chat groups because they were supposed to "solve cryptographic problems" but, in reality, it was malware that people installed on their computers.

2018 He saw too much encrypted encryption malware. There were also malware hidden in programs that looked a lot like Adobe and Microsoft programs and people were infected by Mikro Tik WiFi routers.

We can only hope that 2019 is the best. But he will, really? This is, unfortunately, very unlikely.