Have you ever felt a smartphone suddenly slowing down, heat, and the battery quickly drained without obvious reason? If so, it's possible that your cellphone has been hijacked to mine cryptocurrency.
Reporting from the page Phys.Org, Thursday (08/23/2018) the new cyber attack is called the term cryptojacking by security experts.
"This activity consists of trapping internet servers, personal computers or smartphones to install malware to mine cryptocurrency," said Gerome Billois, an expert at the Wavestone IT service management company.
Mining is basically a process of helping to verify and process transactions in certain virtual currencies. Mining operations connect thousands of processors together to increase the computing power available to get cryptocurrency.
Mining, including bitcoin, ethereum, monero, and other cryptocurrency may be very profitable, but requires large investments and generates large electricity bills. But hackers have found a cheaper option, which is to secretly exploit the processor on a smartphone.
Reporting from the page Phys.Org, Thursday (08/23/2018) the new cyber attack is called the term cryptojacking by security experts.
"This activity consists of trapping internet servers, personal computers or smartphones to install malware to mine cryptocurrency," said Gerome Billois, an expert at the Wavestone IT service management company.
Mining is basically a process of helping to verify and process transactions in certain virtual currencies. Mining operations connect thousands of processors together to increase the computing power available to get cryptocurrency.
Mining, including bitcoin, ethereum, monero, and other cryptocurrency may be very profitable, but requires large investments and generates large electricity bills. But hackers have found a cheaper option, which is to secretly exploit the processor on a smartphone.
