As many as 153,000 new variants of malicious mining software were detected by Kaspersky in the third quarter of 2022
After recent turbulence in the crypto market, Atlas VPN decided to analyze the cybersecurity side of the crypto landscape and found that new modifications of cryptojacking software used in the act of hijacking a computer and using it to mine digital assets against the user's will grew 3.8 times in the third quarter (Q3) of 2022.
As many as 153,000 new variants of malicious mining software were detected by Kaspersky in Q3. In Q2, the number of new cryptojacking variants stood at around 41,000.