{"id":87572,"date":"2019-02-22T18:35:25","date_gmt":"2019-02-22T13:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.quickheal.com\/?p=87572"},"modified":"2019-02-22T18:35:50","modified_gmt":"2019-02-22T13:05:50","slug":"quick-heal-threat-report-cryptojacking-rising-ransomware-still-1-threat-consumers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/quick-heal-threat-report-cryptojacking-rising-ransomware-still-1-threat-consumers\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick Heal Threat Report – Cryptojacking rising but Ransomware still #1 threat for consumers"},"content":{"rendered":"

In wake of the growing incidences of targeted cyber-attacks on enterprises using Cryptojacking, due to its ease of deployment and instant return on investments; it rather comes as a surprise that malware authors are still counting on Ransomware for targeting consumers and home users.<\/p>\n

Yes, you heard it right!<\/em><\/p>\n

According to the Annual Threat Report<\/a> of Quick Heal Technologies, 2018 witnessed 7 Million Ransomware detections in consumer sector as compared to just 5 million Cryptojacking.<\/p>\n

One prominent and destructive Ransomware to grab everyone\u2019s attention in 2018 was \u201cGandCrab<\/em><\/strong>\u201d. Observed for the first time in January 2018, GandCrab within a month claimed to have infected over 48,000 nodes. This massive infection undoubtedly turned Europol’s head and made them coordinate with a security firm to hack GandCrab servers for decryption keys.<\/p>\n

Ever since, GandCrab has kept evolving itself and in fact launched multiple variants by the end of year 2018, posing a serious threat in the consumer landscape.<\/p>\n

In fact, in its latest findings, Quick Heal Labs reported<\/a> that websites that until now where delivering Emotet<\/em><\/strong> (most prominent banking Trojan of 2018) have now started delivering GandCrab Ransomware V 5.1.<\/p>\n

Yet another destructive Ransomware to have raised its head and weakened the security software was \u201cDharma\u201d<\/em><\/strong> Ransomware. With more than 150 extensions observed in this campaign, Dharma Ransomware tried to spread over the network after successful encryption.<\/p>\n

Few of the other Ransomware to have made noise in 2018 include the sophisticated \u201cKatyusha\u201d<\/em><\/strong> Ransomware and \u201cRyuk\u201d<\/em><\/strong> Ransomware that seems to be a spear phishing attack.<\/p>\n

With over 19K Ransomware detected every single day, it wouldn\u2019t be wrong to assume that moving forward, MaaS will soon make way for RaaS<\/em><\/strong> (Ransomware as a Service) or the future possibility of As-a-Service model for APTs (Advanced Persistent Threat) allowing cyber criminals to gain easy unauthorized access to networks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In wake of the growing incidences of targeted cyber-attacks on enterprises using Cryptojacking, due to its ease of deployment and instant return on investments; it rather comes as a surprise that malware authors are still counting on Ransomware for targeting consumers and home users. Yes, you heard it right! According to the Annual Threat Report […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":87573,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1613,24,910,1210],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cryptojacking","category-malware","category-ransomware","category-threat-report-2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87572"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87574,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87572\/revisions\/87574"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}