On the signing of the MoU, Kai Grunwitz, Senior Vice President EMEA at NTT Security, says: "Europol works on all aspects of cyber crime - from botnet takedown and spear phishing right through to cryptomining,
cryptojacking and the dark web - and therefore relies on collaboration with private sector security specialists like NTT Security for enhanced strategic threat intelligence.
Ransomware,
cryptojacking, and business email compromise attacks also took a massive toll on financial losses due to cyber breaches in 2018, according to research by the Internet Society's Online Trust Alliance.
[18] "Now
Cryptojacking Threatens Critical Infrastructure, Too," WIRED, February 12, 2018.
The allocation of the processing power is done without consent and knowledge of the device owner and the criminal's ability to deploy scripts on victim's devices indicates a successful
Cryptojacking' is a cybercrime threat in which threat actor(s) obtains unauthorised computer resources to generate cryptocurrency.
Although ransomware (malicious software that blocks access to a system until a sum of money is paid) and
cryptojacking (unauthorised use of someone else's computer to mine cryptocurrency) declined last year, according to the Symantec report, there's a (relatively) new threat in town: formjacking.
As sophistication and cost of ransomware,
cryptojacking, and social engineering attacks increase, 50% of consumers remain clueless about these online threats.
Possible scenarios the report gives include cloud-native attacks targeting weak APIs or ungoverned API endpoints, expanded reconnaissance and exfiltration of data in cloud databases, and leverage of the cloud as a springboard for cloud-native man-in-the-middle attacks to launch
cryptojacking or ransomware attacks.
Cryptojacking, the unauthorized use of others' computers to "mine" cryptocurrencies like bitcoin, has surpassed the use of ransomware as the top cybercrime.
Cryptojacking, DDoS and ransomware attacks are only a few examples of cyber crimes that are threatening the home IoT ecosystem.