Cryptocurrencies

Hackers target smartphones to mine cryptocurrencies

It’s been a heady few months for cryptocurrencies globally, with one of the original currencies, Bitcoin, soaring in value and governments announcing various plans to try to tame the phenomenon. Predicting what will happen to Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies has become a cottage industry as  Ripple, Dash, Monero (XMR) ...

cryptojacking 

   Certain sites use the smartphones of million Net surfers without their assent in order to undermin virtual currency or cryptomonnaie. Nearly 500million users in the world would have been victims by undermining cryptomonnaies without there knowledge.

   More than 200 of the 1000 most visited Web sitesworld would practise already the cryptojacking,whose total incomes would amount to 57,000$ per month.  That can seem little, but it is theemergence of this recent means of remuneration. This new income source could quickly prove more profitable than publicity. 

 The cryptojacking is not limited only to these more or less legal sites,  indeed of many site would also have been attacked by a badware aiming at installing  cryptojacking, in particularcertain site governmental. Many data-processing experts  agree on the fact that this kind of attack,aiming at using a processor to generate cryptomonnaie risk to very strongly intensify during next months, because it is very profitablefor  the hackers and difficult to detect for theusers. 

   The cryptojacking succeeds the famous ransomwares, these viruses which install  amalware on your computer and ask you a ransomin return for unlockin  of your data. With thedifference that here, the process is much more subtle, no ransom is not required of you explicitly.And yet, you will remunerate without the knowledge your to hack by generatingcryptomonnaie!