Cryptojacking: The Hidden Danger to Your Business Ensighten Whitepaper April 2019 Cryptojacking affected ten times more organizations in 2018 than ransomware. Yet, many businesses remain unaware of the threat it poses2 Criminals will hack into an organization’s network and install cryptomining software on their computers without their knowledge, stealing their electricity and CPU power to mine the coins. Or they will bypass hacking into the network and instead focus on the company’s website. This second type of cryptojacking is harder to identify and protect against. Hackers will inject browser-based cryptomining code, written in JavaScript, that mines whenever a user visits the website. According to Symantec’s 2019 Internet Security Threat Report, this was the most common ty

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