Cybercriminals are now showing an increasing trend to depend on malicious cryptocurrency mining to make money. There has been a surge of sales on the dark web for cryptojacking malware on IoT devices. The profit that criminals make out of attacking IoT devices might be small, at least for now. However, the fact that the device gets infected is a reason for worry for the users of these devices because irrespective of whether the revenue generated for the hacker is small or big, the truth remains that the devices get infected. Certain preventive measures, if adopted, could help protect devices.”]
Source: https://hackercombat.com/cryptocurrency-mining-malware-targeting-iot-is-now-a-big-problem/