Rise in cryptomining malware impacts organizations worldwide - Help Net Security:
"Mobile malware reaches enterprise level – In the last year, we have witnessed several attacks directed at enterprises originating from mobile devices. This includes mobile devices acting as a proxy, triggered by the MilkyDoor malware, andused to collect internal data from the enterprise network. Another type is mobile malware, such as the Switcher malware, that attempts to attack network elements (e.g. routers) to redirect network traffic to a malicious server under the attacker’s control."
"Maya Horowitz, Threat Intelligence Group Manager at Check Point commented: “The second half of 2017 has seen crypto-miners take the world by storm to become a favorite monetizing attack vector. While this is not an entirely new malware type, the increasing popularity and value of cryptocurrency has led to a significant increase in the distribution of crypto-mining malware. Also, there has been a continuation of trends, such as ransomware, that date back to 2016, which is still a leading attack vector, used for both global attacks and targeted attacks against specific organizations. 25% of the attacks we saw in this period exploit vulnerabilities discovered over a decade ago, and less than 20% use ones from the last couple of years.”"