SonicWall: Cryptodes switched from retailers to financiers – Bits Media

System Security Analysts Sonicwall believe, that against the backdrop of a decrease in the number of attacks of the robber programs, incidents with hidden mining grew up.

Sonicwall has published a cybehrosis report 2022 of the year, Which is said, that the number of hacker attacks on the financial sector using cryptojacking increased by 269%. According to the document, The number of cyber attacks on this sector of the economy is now five times higher than the number of attacks on retail trade.

In previous years, government agencies, Healthcare and education institutions were the most common targets of cryptojacking, however in 2022 year there was a “drastic reshuffle”, the financial sector has shifted retail trade to second place:

According to SonicWall experts, the observed phenomenon is explained by a decrease in the number of ransomware attacks, which is caused by increased interest in cyber attacks, cryptocurrency-related combined with stricter ransomware insurance processes. Vice President of SonicWall for the Europe region, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) Terry Greer-King (Terry Greer-King)
considers, that cryptojacking has a lower chance of being detected by the victim.

"Unsuspecting users around the world are seeing, that their devices are becoming inexplicably slower, but it is difficult to connect this with criminal activity, and even more so indicate the source", - described Greer-King's symptoms.

In January, Chainalysis reported, that over the year the volume of crypto assets stolen by hackers decreased from 75% to 54%. Wherein 73% Losses from cyber attacks come from cryptojacking. According to the report, At the end 2021 year, stolen crypto assets amounted to 93% from all means, stored in the wallets of criminals, and their total cost reached $9.8 billion. Of this amount only $30 million accounts for hacker attacks using cryptojacking.