If your mobile phone (especially if it’s an Android) has started to run slowly, is overheating, or its battery is depleting rapidly for no apparent reason, you should be worried.
Why? According to a report from AFP, these symptoms may mean you’ve been the unfortunate victim of a cryptojacker.
Mining cryptocurrencies is essentially just carrying out digital transactions — the difference between cryptocurrency transactions and other digital transactions is that it typically involves solving problems using hardware (in return for which you get paid in a given cryptocurrency).
In order for cryptojackers to mine, users download seemingly harmless apps that, in turn, introduce mining malware to the device.Read More
Source : Businessinsider