Kaspersky Deems Crypto-jacking the New Ransomware as Crypto-miners up Their Game
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Kaspersky research and independent investigators report a shift from noisy ransomware to covert crypto-jacking: malicious tooling now includes an unsophisticated MacOS backdoor (OSX Dummy) spread via Slack/Discord social engineering and advanced clipboard-hijacking malware that scans millions of cryptocurrency addresses to silently redirect funds, while detection statistics show decreasing ransomware and rising crypto-miner encounters.
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