2018 was the year of malicious cryptocurrency mining, says Cisco Talos. Cryptocryptone mining was the new payload of choice for adversaries, dislodging the lump-sum payouts of threats like ransomware. The value of the currency being mined has cratered to a little more than $0.04 per day for a basic home computer. As we move into 2019, it’s likely that the payloads of choice will continue to diverge between different aspects of the threat landscape. Regardless, enterprises need to be prepared to deal with malicious or unauthorized cryptocurrency mining activities on their respective networks.”]
Source: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/2018/12/cryptocurrency-future-2018.html