Positive Technologies: hackers began to use viruses for mining two times less.

The number of cases of cyber attacks using miner viruses has almost halved in 2018. In the first months of the year, such attacks accounted for 27% of the total number of cybercrimes, at the end of the year this figure dropped to 13%.

Browser mining service Coinhive will stop work on March 8.

Coinhive, which provides website owners with the opportunity to extract Monero at the expense of visitors, will end on March 8. This is reported in the company's blog.

“We have been working hard on this project for the past 18 months, but, to be honest, it is no longer economically viable,” - the company representatives say.