Massive Increase in Mining Malware Reported by Security Firms

In separate reports, security firms have confirmed a massive uptick in websites running mining software both purposely and without their knowledge.
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The security vendor Cyren monitored half a million websites over the period of September 2017 through January 2018 finding a 725% increase in domains running mining scripts, with half of that increase happening in just the last two months of 2017.
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