Cryptocurrency mining a growing threat to businesses

The CoinHive malware, designed to mine the Monero cryptocurrency when a user visits a web page -- without the user's approval -- was the sixth most common malware during October. The latest Global Threat Impact Index by Check Point released this week shows the RoughTed ad-blocker malware and Rocky ransomware are still the top two threats. However, there's a new trend toward sneakier programs with Seamless -- which redirects the victim to a malicious web page -- at number three. CoinHive can have a particularly severe impact on systems. It implants JavaScript, which then grabs high levels of the end-users'… [Continue Reading]