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India is among the countries with the highest cryptocurrency mining encounters and drive-by download attacks in the last year, according to Microsoft’s latest Security Endpoint Threat Report 2019.
India recorded a cryptocurrency mining encounter rate that was 4.6 times higher than the regional and global average. The country recorded the second-highest encounter rate in the Asia Pacific after Sri Lanka, according to the report.
During such attacks, victims’ computers are infected with cryptocurrency mining malware, allowing criminals to leverage the computing power of their computers without their knowledge.
“While recent fluctuations in cryptocurrency value and the increased time required to generate cryptocurrency have
