Kaspersky Labs Warns Against Cryptocurrency Mining Malware Affecting Several Corporation…

The public threat of cryptocurrency miners seemingly increases daily. In the latest instance, a cryptocurrency miner dubbed “PowerGhost” was found to have infected servers of entire corporations, extracting massive amounts of energy to fulfill unlawful purposes.

Miner Threatens Corporations

As stated on SecureList on July 26, 2018, Moscow-based Kaspersky Labs revealed the presence of a new miner malware after its global software systems raised security alarms across several clients.

Called “PowerGhost,” the miner is said to have stealthily installed itself on a victim P.C. and deploy across workstation servers and corporations to gain their computing resources for mining cryptocurrencies.