Is cryptojacking still an underrated threat? According to a study published
by cybersecurity firm, Aqua Security, cloud servers remain a major
target for cryptojacking — a type of attack whose main motivation is to
mine cryptocurrencies.
The “2020 Cloud Native Threat
Report” states that between the second half of 2019 and the first half
of 2020, attacks of this nature surged by 250%. In total, 95% of the
16,371 attacks registered during this period were related to cryptojacking.
The perpetrators of this type of exploit rely heavily on the use of XMRig, a well-known Monero (XMR) mining app, to deploy the attacks. Aqua Security explained:
“Although
Bitcoin has better publicity than Monero, the last is preferred by the
adversaries. We speculate that they choose Monero since it is considered
significantly more anonymous than Bitcoin.”
As
crypto prices have risen, researchers have witnessed an increased amount
of cryptojacking and other related attacks, according to research from
cybersecurity firm Symantec. Their findings showed a 163% increase in
browser-based cryptojacking activity in the second quarter of 2020.
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