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Agencies 08-06-2021 12:30 PM
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#NEWDELHI Attacks on crypto users quadrupled in the first quarter of this year, as cybercriminals installed malware called Miners to steal cryptocurrency from infected devices, according to a new report. The number of unique miner changes more than quadrupled, from 3,815 to 16,934 in the first quarter of 2021. In total, researchers at cybersecurity company Kaspersky discovered 23,894 new miner changes during the period. Miners are often set up without users’ knowledge, then slowly start siphoning off various types of crypto coins, and in some cases, miners easily walk away with millions. The number of Kaspersky users who have encountered minors on their devices has also increased steadily, from 187,746 in January to 200,045 users in March 2021. A total of 432,171 unique users encountered minors in the first quarter of 2021. “It’s too early to say for sure if the trend we saw in the first quarter of 2021 is here to stay,” said Evgeny Lopatin, senior security expert at Kaspersky. Other notable trends included a decrease in the number of users encountering both mobile and PC banking Trojans and an increase in the number of ransomware Trojan modifications. As minors are often distributed as “riskware”, they are not automatically blocked by security solutions. “You need to configure the settings of your security solution to block ‘risky’ programs,” the researchers said.
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