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Cryptocurrency\u2014Bitcoin, Ethereum, Monero, etc.\u2014have opened up huge financial opportunities for millions of people across the globe and has attracted some rather unsavory characters to take advantage of this yet untested economic realm.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Indeed, we here at Solutions Review previously reported on various digital currency heists around the world. At one point such reports almost became a weekly occurrence, as inevitable as the dawn. <\/span><\/p>\n We\u2019ve also written extensively about the dangers of illicit or subversive<\/a> cryptocurrency mining malware<\/a>, also called cryptojacking<\/a>, on enterprise endpoints. Cryptojacking has become the latest hacking obsession among threat actors, with attacks known to drain processing power, dwell for months at a time, and even cause endpoint damage from overheating. <\/span><\/p>\n The most distressing part of this volume of content on digital currency in cybersecurity? We have only been scratching the surface of the issue. Endpoint security<\/a> solution provider Carbon Black<\/a> just released their \u201cCryptocurrency Gold Rush on the Dark Web\u201d report. Their findings should give any CIO and CISO pause as it highlights the depth of passion digital threat actors hold for digital currency: <\/span><\/p>\n That last statistic is the heart of the matter for enterprises. While cryptocurrency exchanges are the most vulnerable to cryptocurrency attacks\u2014they constitute 27% of all reported incidents\u2014no enterprise is immune to cryptocurrency attacks. <\/span><\/p>\n Everyday enterprises of other industries are the second highest target for crypto-attacks. The majority of such attacks, according to Carbon Black, are cryptojacking malware. Compounding the issue, 14% of cryptocurrency-based attacks utilize data breaches and theft of personal information to target users that use digital currency. 10% of the Dark Web cryptocurrency malware offerings are for covert digital currency mining attacks and 3.3% are for mining botnets. <\/span><\/p>\n Other enterprise-related cryptocurrency malware from Carbon Black findings include: <\/span><\/p>\n And vulnerable victims tend to be enterprises that don\u2019t have an endpoint security solution deployed in their IT environment that will deter the amateur hacker outright and frustrate the experienced. <\/span><\/p>\n Enterprises tend to believe their legacy endpoint security solution can protect them. Yet these solutions, based on signature-based detection, can’t keep up with the wave of new threats and new hacking technologies. So you must ask yourself: is it time your enterprise upgraded its endpoint security solution?<\/span><\/p>\n You can read the full Carbon Black blog post on the report here.<\/a><\/p>\n Cryptocurrency\u2014Bitcoin, Ethereum, Monero, etc.\u2014have opened up huge financial opportunities for millions of people across the globe and has attracted some rather unsavory characters to take advantage of this yet untested economic realm.\u00a0 Indeed, we here at Solutions Review previously reported on various digital currency heists around the world. At one point such reports almost became […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":1097,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,162,75,22,13,40,30,161,94,92,16,84],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n\t\t\t![\"Download](\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/endpoint-security\/files\/2019\/01\/endpoint-security-speedbump-cta.jpg\")
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