The Cyber Threat Alliance: This rapid growth shows no signs of slowing down. Being attacked is indicative of flaws in enterprise cyber security posture.
Skybox Security: The less attention received than the one against ransomware and the recent upticks of cryptocurrencies made those cyber attacks incredibly profitable.
The cybersecurity experts: it targeted Bitvote, the new cryptocurrency launched in January and uses an unusual method for malware spread. This trend will continue in future.
They are insecure data in the cloud, malware for crypto-mining software and infiltration of infrastructure and industrial code. Actors are cybercrime and state sponsored hackers.
The cybersecurity experts found in ISTR 2018 that cryptojacking increased 8,500%. Not only. Cybercrime starts using IoT devices to mine coins en masse.
Cybersecurity researchers at Trend Micro discovered an almost 285% increase in the number of Coinhive miners and the traffic came from DoubleClick advertisement.