Thieves began to proliferate, secretly mining cryptocurrencies by infiltrating people’s devices.
According to research by the Microsoft 365 Defender team cryptojacker The number of people who infiltrate people’s devices and mine cryptocurrencies without their knowledge began to increase.
In Microsoft’s statement on Thursday, “Microsoft Defender Antivirus has been around for the past few months. Hundreds of thousands of devices have cryptojackers Has detected.” statement was included.
According to research, cryptojackers have especially recently began to act in a much more secretive way. For this reason, on your own device mining cryptocurrencies without consent it has become more difficult for users to notice this situation.
According to the statements of the Microsoft team, cryptojackers sometimes access other devices via Javascript without using any files to infiltrate their devices. access via browser provides.