Researchers at Kaspersky Lab have discovered that more cybercriminals have switched to using malware to illegally explore digital currencies through mobile user accounts, known as mining software.
These criminals have become more greedy, by resorting to dangerous tools and methods by concealing the mechanisms of currency exploration within football and virtual private networks to illegally exploit hundreds of thousands of victims without their knowledge.
Internet criminals resort to several ways to dig for digital coins as they seek to increase their profits by digging on desktop, laptop and server computers as well as smartphones.
Kaspersky Lab experts have found evidence that criminals link fraudulent software to legitimate applications and publish it under the guise of these applications, which may be specific to the broadcast of football matches or the operation of virtual private networks known as VPN , And the largest number of victims of these operations are concentrated in Brazil and Ukraine.
According to Kaspersky Lab's data, the most common applications used by criminals to cover their criminal activities of digital currency exploration are football applications that ostensibly serve to broadcast football games while secretly concealing the discovery and theft of digital currencies.
Criminals used the Java Coinhive mining tool. When users run game broadcasts, the application opens an HTML file that includes the Coinhive JavaScript software, which converts the CPU power of the user device to the virtual Monroe currency for the broadcast. Play, the most popular download was about 100,000 times, 90 percent of which in Brazil.
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