725% increase in cryptocurrency mining threatens more than just your CPU

We've been tracking cryptocurrency mining activity here at the Cyren Security Lab and have confirmed a massive run-up in the number of web sites hosting "cryptomining" scripts globally. Based on the monitoring of a sample of 500,000 sites, we've found a 725% increase in the number of domains running scripts on one or more pages -- knowingly or not -- in the four-month period from last September to January 2018.

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