Crypto-mining malware and crypto-jacking have taken center stage in cybercrime news. We’ll discuss the most recent events and see how this links to ransomware, which dominated the cybercrime news last year, where one outbreak cost seven companies over one billion dollars.
Both crypto-mining malware and ransomware, aside from gathering headlines, demonstrate that cybercriminals and nation state actors are building capabilities for worming malware that could have the ability to do far greater damage than has yet been seen.