Cryptominers infected roughly ten times more organizations during 2018 than ransomware did, however only one in five security professionals knew that their company’s systems have been impacted by a malware attack as reported by Check Point Research.
This follows a trend where threat actors have been doing their best to keep a low profile as much as possible, giving up on large scale ransomware attacks which get noticed immediately and switching to the harder to detect cryptojacking campaigns.
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