Ransomware Viruses Have Become More Popular Than Cryptojacking Among Cybercriminals

According to Malwarebytes, between the second and third quarter of 2018, the number of attacks on commercial companies by cybercriminals increased by 55%, with the most popular weapon in the hands of attackers became ransomware.

Methods of illegal earnings are surprising in their diversity. Malwarebytes notes that cybercriminals prefer to attack companies rather than consumers — the increase in the number of attacks on representatives of the latter group between Q2 and Q3 2018 was only 4%.

The main blow was taken by banks. In the third quarter saw the light of 40 new ways to carry out attacks. Hackers are even trying to embed Trojans in corporate networks in order to steal important information.

At the same time, Malwarebytes notes a decline in the popularity of crypto-mining: the number of disclosed cases of hidden remote mining decreased by 26% in the third quarter. cryptojacking remained the most popular method among cybercriminals during the first half of 2018. Then this danger was one of the main topics in the cryptocurrency community. Since that time, a lot has changed: browsers like Chrome began to actively fight against hidden mining, as well as a lot of guides for users to protect the latter from cryptojacking.