Atlas VPN is malicious mining revealed the number of connections. Accordingly, a total of about 831,000 malicious addresses were detected. The top three countries at risk of malicious connections, according to Atlas VPN, are the USA, Germany, and Russia.
Experts determined that from October 2020 to September 2021, there were 177,753 malicious mining addresses. It was also stated that approximately 70% of all malicious URLs detected target the US market, with Germany and Russia leading the attackers’ target list.
How Does Secret Mining Work?
Cybercriminals infiltrate their victims’ devices cryptocurrency mining and they make money this way.
The interesting thing is that such activities are carried out by Norton 360. antivirus that it can be done by means of such programs. So far, many users have accused the developers of mining cryptocurrencies on their personal devices without permission.
Aside from the antivirus software mining cryptocurrencies without any permission from users Google Cloud It is another striking fact that its users are also secret miners.
According to Google Cybersecurity Action Team analysts, almost 90% of Google Cloud account hacks involve cryptocurrencies. secret mining aims to do.
Is YouTuber’s claim a lie?
Youtuber Siraj Raval’s allegations, on the other hand, became the subject of a separate discussion. Raval claimed that he was able to mine $800 per month in Ethereum (ETH) cryptocurrency using Tesla Model 3. Miner Thomas Somers states that the figures claimed by YouTuber are not correct.