The practice of surreptitiously mining cryptocurrency on other people’s hardware is becoming pervasive, overtaking ransomware as a tool of choice for extorting money online. This week, cybersecurity firm Check Point published its regular Global Threat Index. It shows that Coinhive, a piece of software …
Source: Forget Viruses or Spyware—Your Biggest Cyberthreat Is Greedy Cryptocurrency Miners
