Crypto-jacking activities, ransomware attacks on the rise, claims McAfee Labs report

2019-8-30 13:00

The latest McAfee Labs report brings to light significant research on the ever-increasing threat of ransomware and the new family of emerging ransomware. In the first quarter of 2019 itself, the number of ransomware attacks rose by 118% while there were several new classes of ransomware detected as well.

The investigation also found out that […]

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